Installation view of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings featuring hanging translucent curtains, CRT monitors, and a projected film image on a red wall.

Dark gallery installation view of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings, with a bright projection illuminating an arrangement of small objects, models, and glass spheres on the floor.

Gallery installation view of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings, with a grid of framed images, vitrines, and a large-scale projection of a woman’s face.

Gallery wall installation from Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings, showing a linear sequence of framed black-and-white images and a boxed text piece to the right.

Tomorrow is your last chance to see "Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings"! Join at 2 PM for an exhibition tour, included with gallery admission!

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Animated film still from Aurora’s Sunrise (2022), showing a young girl in a white dress standing on a house-like setting with red threads cascading around her.

Film still from Aurora’s Sunrise (2022), featuring a woman in a car gazing outside, wearing a dark blouse and a pearl necklace.

Film still from Aurora’s Sunrise (2022), featuring a large family portrait with adults and children gathered in front of a rustic building.

Tomorrow at 4 PM: AURORA’S SUNRISE. ✨

Inna Sahakyan’s award-winning documentary reconstructs the life of Aurora Mardiganian through animation, archival imagery, and rediscovered footage. Followed by a conversation with Dzovinar Derderian and Myrna Douzjian. Link in bio. 🎟️

Event poster for “Airo Asia, or Art for a Global Majority,” featuring Joan Kee and event details for Saturday, April 18 at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

This Saturday, April 18 at 1:30 PM: Lijin Lecture / Joan Kee: Afro Asia, or Art for a Global Majority. 📚

Joan Kee will speak from her award-winning book “The Geometries of Afro Asia”. Included with gallery admission. Get tickets in the link in bio. 🎟️

On Shaking Up Perception: An Interview with Lucrecia Martel Long before the contemporary use of the trendy adjective “immersive” appeared in all sorts of descriptions that try to convince us to buy an experience, let’s say, spend a ridiculous amount of money p...

And here's our interview with Lucrecia Martel on the occasion of her residency this week at @bampfa.bsky.social (and brief visit to the Roxie on Thursday): www.screenslate.com/articles/sha...

Film still from The Headless Woman (2008), featuring a woman reclining while another leans over her, touching her forehead in a softly lit interior.

Film still from Canuto’s Transformation (2023), featuring a close-up of a child leaning forward, eyes fixed ahead with a focused gaze.

Film still from Zama (2017), featuring a man in historical attire looking forward with a serious expression, with a llama visible over his shoulder.

Film still from Nueva Argirópolis (2010), featuring a uniformed man and a child standing on a brick shoreline, looking out toward a boat on the river.

Closing this week: “Lucrecia Martel: Un destino común.” 🎬

The series continues through April 19 with OUR LAND/NUESTRA TIERRA, CANUTO’S TRANSFORMATION, selected short films, and ZAMA still ahead. Link in bio. 🎟️

Film still from Days and Nights in the Forest (1970), featuring a woman in a sari standing on a sandy shore while a man leans against a tree, looking toward her.

Film still from Days and Nights in the Forest (1970), featuring four men standing together under a rustic structure, smiling as they look at something off-screen.

Film still from Days and Nights in the Forest (1970), featuring several people gathered on a picnic blanket beneath trees while a woman in a sari stands observing.

Tomorrow at 4 PM: DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST. 🌿

See Satyajit Ray’s 1970 masterpiece in a 4K digital restoration at BAMPFA. Tickets and details at the link in bio. 🎟️

Film still from Floating Weeds (1959), featuring a woman and a man in traditional Japanese clothing separated by wooden pillars as rain falls outside.

Film still from News from Home (1977), featuring a taxi with headlights on moving along a quiet urban street framed by tall buildings.

Now in the final stretch: “Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings” and “Sentimental Education: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha at the Pacific Film Archive”✨

Through April 19, this is the perfect moment to experience Cha’s work! Plan your visit at the link in bio. 🎟️

Film still from Let Me In (2026), featuring a person in a white astronaut suit raising their hands toward light in a dense, plant-filled setting.

Animated film still from Soup! (2025), showing a small blue character sitting on an oversized spoon against a colorful background.

Film still from Babaylan (2025), featuring a person in profile gazing upward in soft evening light with a building in the background.

Animated film still from A Drop of Dew (2025), showing a small figure standing by water with its reflection visible.

Tomorrow at 7:30 PM: the BAMPFA Student Committee Film Festival! 🎬

Join us for a free showcase of short films by Bay Area student filmmakers, with the students themselves in person. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 6:30 PM. Link in bio. 🎟️

Purple promotional graphic reading “Work With Us! BAMPFA is looking for an Integrated Marketing Specialist.”

BAMPFA is hiring!

We're looking for an Integrated Marketing Specialist to join our team! If you're a mission-driven marketing professional with a passion for the arts, this job is a perfect fit. ✨

➡️ Learn more and apply at bampfa.org/careers or the link in bio!

Film still from Faya dayi (2021), featuring a person partially submerged in water, head tilted back and eyes closed.

Black-and-white film still from Faya dayi (2021), showing silhouetted birds perched on branches against a bright moon.

Black-and-white film still from Faya dayi (2021), showing two people lying side by side, looking off-frame.

Tomorrow at 7 PM, filmmaker Jessica Beshir joins us for FAYA DAYI, with a post-screening conversation with shah noor hussein.

A hallucinatory black-and-white debut set in rural Ethiopia, where khat blurs the line between spiritual ritual and escape.

🎟️ bampfa.org/psychedelia

Film festival poster reading “69th San Francisco International Film Festival at BAMPFA,” over an image of a group gathered in a dim interior, featuring a still from Salvation (2026).

Film still from The World of Love (2025), featuring several students in school uniforms gathered closely, smiling and laughing as they look at a phone.

Film still from Blue Heron (2025), featuring a close-up profile of a person with blond, windblown hair and glasses, set against a body of water.

Film still from Time and Water (2026), featuring a wide landscape view of a waterfall flowing between rocky cliffs with snowy mountains in the background.

Festival season is coming fast! 💥

SFFILM at BAMPFA brings a newly announced lineup of international films, discoveries, and special events to our theater April 25–May 3. See what’s coming up at bampfa.org/program/69th-san-francis...

Film festival poster featuring a still from Hair, Paper, Water… (2025) of three people sitting in a boat on a river surrounded by lush greenery, with San Francisco Film Festival dates.

Color film still from Filipiñana (2026), showing young girls seated at a driving range while golfers practice swings behind them.

Film still from Enough Is Enough (2026), featuring several men laughing and moving energetically together in front of a wooden building.

Film still from Silent Friend (2025), featuring a man carefully placing connected sensors or devices against a large tree in a lush, green woodland.

The new SFFILM at BAMPFA lineup is here! 👀

Expect a wide-ranging mix of international cinema, inventive docs, and standout new voices from around the world. Browse the festival program and start planning at bampfa.org/program/69th-san-francis...

Sunday at 1 PM, filmmaker Annie MacDonell joins us in person for Communicating Vessels, part of “Psychedelia & Cinema.”

Featuring work by MacDonell & Maïder Fortuné, plus films by Lillian Schwartz, Ben Russell, and Gunvor Nelson.

🎟️ bampfa.org/psychedelia

Promotional poster for the San Francisco Film Festival, showing a man inside a phone booth in a grassy landscape at dusk, with dates April 25–May 3, 2026, featuring a still from Risa and the Wind Phone (2025).

Color film still from Renoir (2025), showing a young woman holding a red telephone receiver with a lollipop in her mouth.

Color film still from Give Me the Ball! (2026), showing a tennis player lunging forward to hit a shot during a match.

Color film still from Every Contact Leaves a Trace (2025), showing a person standing with hands on hips facing shelves filled with film reels and labeled containers.

Just announced: SFFILM at BAMPFA. 🎬

From April 25–May 3, BAMPFA hosts a lineup of festival screenings spanning international cinema, documentaries, and debut features. Get your tickets today at bampfa.org/program/69th-san-francis...

(2/2) Please note that there is no guarantee that tickets will become available if you choose to join the line, as it depends on how many people return their tickets. We do not sell "open seats" since it is our policy to allow people to enter the theater as late.

(1/2) Thanks for your message and your interest in our screening! One hour before the screening, people may form an in-person "rush line" to wait for any possible tickets. Tickets become available if people cancel or return their tickets to us, which we can then resell to the people waiting in line.

Color photograph of a museum display featuring ceramic vessels and a small woven object on a white pedestal, with a person viewing framed photographs in the background.

Dark gallery space with a large video projection showing a softly lit interior scene, with benches in the foreground.

Gallery wall displaying a row of five framed black-and-white photographs in light wooden frames.

Free First Thursday = free gallery admission all day at BAMPFA!

Then at 7 PM, “Sentimental Education” opens with THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC, introduced by Tausif Noor with Judith Rosenberg on piano. (bampfa.org)

Color film still from Floating Weeds by Yasujiro Ozu showing a woman in a patterned kimono seated behind a counter, facing forward.

Dimly lit film still from News from Home by Chantal Akerman, showing a person standing outside a shop window filled with stacked items and cool blue light.

Grainy black-and-white still from Permutations by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha featuring a centered close-up of a woman with long dark hair and closed eyes.

Black-and-white video still from Secret Spill by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, showing figures outdoors beside a draped white sheet, viewed through a television screen.

Opening tomorrow: “Sentimental Education: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha at the Pacific Film Archive.”

April 2–19 at BAMPFA, this series pairs films Cha studied with her own moving-image work. Opening night: THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC, April 2 at 7 PM. (bampfa.org/cha-pfa)

Abstract film still from the film PNEUMA by Nathaniel Dorsky in layered blue tones, with soft curved shapes and a pronounced grainy texture.

Abstract film still from PNEUMA by Nathaniel Dorsky, featuring a blurred close-up of an animal’s muzzle and whiskers, surrounded by blue-toned light.

Sepia-toned film still QUICK BILLY by Bruce Baillie, showing a bearded man in a hat and open shirt, standing indoors.

Tomorrow at 4 PM: Grains of Perception Nathaniel Dorsky in person, part of the film series “Psychedelia & Cinema.”

An extraordinary chance to experience Dorsky’s work PNEUMA on the big screen. The series continues through May 10.

Check out what is new and ongoing @bampfa.bsky.social (2155 Center Street) in December! 🖼️ 📽️

More Info: bampfa.org

Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman (Jul 3 - Dec 21)

Lee ShinJa: Drawing with Thread (Aug 6 - Feb 1, 2026)

The Rad Films This Winter at The Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive Dive into BAMPFA's Winter 2025: Frederick Wiseman docs, Julia Loktev's daring journalism film, and Jerry Ross Barrish's art—provocative cinema that challenges perspectives.

Now at the @brokeassstuart.bsky.social website: preview of the @bampfa.bsky.social Winter 2025 program, featuring everything from a look at Truffaut's #films from a personal perspective to Wong Kar-Wai's films restored in 4K and on the big screen. www.tinyurl.com/4mvmuhfs #Filmsky

📽️ Upcoming Screenings:
Nov 12 @ 7 PM—Gunvor Nelson: Program 1
Nov 13 @ 7 PM—Fire of Wind
Nov 14 @ 7 PM—Marta Mateus: Poetry, Portraiture, and Place
Nov 15 @ 7 PM—Trás-os-Montes
Nov 16 @ 2 PM—Gunvor Nelson: Program 2
Nov 16 @ 5 PM—Husband and Wife
Nov 16 @ 7 PM—Ana

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António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro One of my biggest objections to many of the films that pass through the festival circuit today is the phony cosmopolitanism of many productions: films made from nowhere, but seemingly addressed to eve...

Bonus archive posts: Jonathan Mackris on António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, two of whose category-defying films "recapturing some of the oral traditions of the villages" of northeastern Portugal are screening this weekend at @bampfa.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/ant...

Sat / Nov 8 @ 3:30 PM—The Burnt Theatre
Sat / Nov 8 @ 7 PM—One Evening After the War
Sun / Nov 9 @ 1:30 PM—Everything Will Be OK
Sun / Nov 9 @ 5 PM—Wife
Sun / Nov 9 @ 7 PM—Juvenile Court

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📽️ Upcoming Screenings:
Wed / Nov 5 @ 7 PM—The Films of Tomonari Nishikawa
Thu / Nov 6 @ 3:30 PM—Rice People
Thu / Nov 6 @ 7 PM—Lightning
Fri / Nov 7 @ 2:30 PM—The Missing Picture
Fri / Nov 7 @ 7 PM—Meeting with Pol Pot
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Showing Soon at BAMPFA: Avocado Iced Coffee and Art-Inspired Cakes Kopi Bar is bringing its Cal-Indonesian pastries and coffee drinks to Berkeley.

Opening Saturday at @bampfa.bsky.social!

www.kqed.org/arts/1398046...

A face seen through sun-dappled autumn leaves in Marta Mateus’s FIRE OF WIND (2024)

Marta Mateus (BARBS, WASTELAND; FIRE OF WIND) is presenting and discussing her work and influences @anthologyfilm.bsky.social, the Siskel + Doc Films, @acropoliscinema.bsky.social, and @bampfa.bsky.social — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Kopi Bar is now open at @bampfa.bsky.social! Welcome to #downtown #berkeley! ☕️

@mayoradenaishii.bsky.social

Sat / Nov 1 @ 1:30 PM—State Legislature
Sat / Nov 1 @ 6:30 PM—Shanghai Blues
Sun / Nov 2 @ 3 PM—Lust, Caution (Sold out!)
Sun / Nov 2 @ 7 PM—Before Night Falls
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📽️This Week in Film:
Wed / Oct 29 @ 7 PM—BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Free admission!)
Thu / Oct 30 @ 7 PM—Crows and Sparrows
Fri / Oct 31 @ 4:30 PM—Four Nights a Dreamer
Fri / Oct 31 @ 6:30 PM—Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
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