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Film Series
Past Film Series-
Documentary Voices
February 5–April 30, 2025BAMPFA’s annual selection of compelling nonfiction films includes the award-winning Palestinian/Israeli documentary No Other Land, as well as films by Dana Claxton, Kevin Jerome Everson, Asmae El Moudir, and Ibrahim Nash’at. With Sergei Loznitsa, Rick Prelinger, Jenni Olson, Elizabeth Ai, Pinar Öğrenci, and Sylvain George in person.
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Special Screenings 2025
OngoingRecent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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Swedish Outsider: The Films of Mai Zetterling
March 1–May 8, 2025A centennial year celebration of the films of Mai Zetterling (1925–1994), the Swedish-born actor-turned-director, featuring some of her best screen roles and the short films, documentaries, and features that earned her a reputation as a director interested in psychological treatments and sexual candor. With guest presenters Linda Haverty Rugg and Anna Stenport.
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African Film Festival 2025
March 6–April 6, 2025BAMPFA’s ongoing collaboration with the African Film Festival in New York affords the opportunity to screen an array of contemporary and classic films depicting the diverse experiences of Africans on the continent and around the world.
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Todd Haynes: Far from Safe
March 8–April 12, 2025Todd Haynes will be at BAMPFA to present Safe, Velvet Goldmine, I’m Not There, and Far From Heaven, launching an extensive retrospective of his films, exceptional explorations of identity in relation to self and society, and the danger and power of resisting or transgressing social norms.
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Ukrainian Cinema: Poetry and Resistance
March 21–April 13, 2025From lyrical to epic genres, from the deep social conflicts to the joy of liberty, this program expresses the character of the Ukrainian people, who continue to resist Russian imperialism in the ongoing war.
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Media and Migration on Screen
April 16–18, 2025Presented in conjunction with the symposium Media and Migration in a Digital Age, and the Mosse Lecture series, these films represent innovative cinematic approaches to depicting the histories, causes, and effects of global migration while serving as creative counterpoints to negative mass media depictions of migrant communities.
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68th San Francisco International Film Festival at BAMPFA
April 18–27, 2025BAMPFA is proud to partner with the SFFILM Festival, an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and a major cultural event in the Bay Area.
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Love Streams, Gena Rowlands & John Cassavetes
May 2–May 14, 2025A celebration of one of the most significant cinematic partnerships of the twentieth century, Love Streams, Gena Rowlands & John Cassavetes, focuses on Gena Rowlands’s performances in six groundbreaking independent films written and directed by John Cassavetes, her husband of thirty-five years.
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