Due to a three-day strike across the University of California system, BAMPFA is operating with reduced hours this week, and the following film screenings have been canceled:
Wed / Feb 26 / 7:00 PM / Gaucho Gaucho
Thu / Feb 27 / 7:00 PM / According to Pereira
Fri / Feb 28 / 4:30 PM / The Shanghai Drama
Fri / Feb 28 / 7:00 PM / Maliglutit
If you have already purchased a film ticket to any of these films, you will receive a separate email from our Visitor Experience staff with information regarding the refund process. If you purchased a ticket in person, contact or stop by our admissions desk at bampfa@berkeley.edu / (510) 642-1412 to obtain a refund.
Read more about BAMPFA's film cancellations and reduced hours this week→
José Miguel Ribeiro: Nayola, 2022
Film Series
African Film Festival 2025
March 6–April 6
Our annual partnership with the African Film Festival brings you a fresh edition of excellent contemporary and recently restored cinema from the African continent and diaspora.
This year’s selection includes one of the most critically successful titles of the past year (Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, which thrilled audiences at the Mill Valley Film Festival), and a new restoration of Ousmane Sembène’s classic Camp de Thiaroye.
Directed by Payal Kapadia, 2024
Crafted with visual poetry and emotional empathy, Payal Kapadia’s drama shines a light on three nurses as they negotiate love and life in the teeming metropolis of Mumbai. Outstanding performances and cinematography that reflects the small but wondrous epiphanies of everyday lives anchor this Cannes Grand Prix winner.
Series: Special Screenings 2025
Directed by Alf Sjöberg, 1944
Introduction: Linda Haverty Rugg
Ingmar Bergman’s first produced screenplay was for the great Swedish filmmaker Alf Sjöberg’s Torment, a dark coming-of-age drama about a boarding-school senior who falls in love with a shopgirl, with a standout performance by Mai Zetterling. Preceded by a short documentary on Zetterling’s career.
Directed by Ingmar Bergman, 1948
Introduction: Linda Haverty Rugg
Ingmar Bergman’s early, restless experimentation with different aesthetics is at its height in this tale of the relationship between a young, blind musician and a lower-class servant girl, played by Mai Zetterling.
Les Blank Lecture: Rick Prelinger
The annual Les Blank Lecture is presented by archivist, filmmaker, educator, and curator Rick Prelinger. Prelinger will present excerpts from his Lost Landscapes compilations and discuss the importance of archiving home movies and industrial, educational, and ephemeral films.
Series: Documentary Voices
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and Pacific Film Archive
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