Special Screenings 2025

Ongoing

Recent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.

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  • François Truffaut: The 400 Blows (1959)

  • Vivien Hillgrove: Vivien’s Wild Ride (2025)

  • Maura Delpero: Vermiglio (2024)

  • Luis Buñuel: Él (1953)

  • King Hu: Dragon Inn (1967)

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Upcoming Films

  • Film and Video Makers at Cal: Works from the Eisner Competition

    Free Admission

    Sunday, May 18 2:00 PM
    UC Berkeley Student Filmmakers in Person

    Student filmmakers join us for a screening of this year’s prizewinners and honorable mentions in the film and video category of the Eisner Prize competition, UC Berkeley’s highest award for creative media making.

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  • Vivien’s Wild Ride

    Vivien Hillgrove
    United States, 2025

    Closed Captioned

    Sunday, June 8 7 PM

    When legendary film editor Vivien Hillgrove begins losing her sight, she turns to filmmaking to craft a magical memoir, reflecting on her career, personal struggles, and the transformative power of creativity.

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  • The 400 Blows

    François Truffaut
    France, 1959
    Thursday, June 12 7 PM
    Introduction by Laura Truffaut

    Jean-Pierre Léaud plays François Truffaut’s alter ego, Antoine Doinel, in the quintessential coming-of-age film, a lyrical but unsentimental portrait of adolescence and of Paris.

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  • Vermiglio

    Maura Delpero
    Italy, 2024

    East Bay Premiere
    Winner of the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival

    Wednesday, June 18 7 PM

    The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermiglio, Maura Delpero’s visionary film, which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.

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  • Vivien’s Wild Ride

    Vivien Hillgrove
    United States, 2025

    Closed Captioned

    Saturday, June 21 4 PM

    When legendary film editor Vivien Hillgrove begins losing her sight, she turns to filmmaking to craft a magical memoir, reflecting on her career, personal struggles, and the transformative power of creativity.

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  • A Photographic Memory

    Rachel Elizabeth Seed
    United States, 2024

    Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards

    Saturday, June 28 4 PM

    New York Times Critic’s Pick, A Photographic Memory is an intimate portrait of filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s trailblazing mother, Sheila Turner Seed, who was a vibrant and pioneering journalist, photographer, and filmmaker. “Vividly introspective . . . sumptuous” (Carlos Aguilar, Variety).

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  • Él

    Luis Buñuel
    Mexico, 1953

    4K Digital Restoration

    Sunday, June 29 5 PM

    A psychological thriller: one of Luis Buñuel’s rawest, angriest indictments of religious and social hypocrisy, Él stands as the Surrealist master’s great excursion into dark melodrama, where civilization can find no answer to the raging urges of the irrational id.

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  • Vermiglio

    Maura Delpero
    Italy, 2024

    East Bay Premiere
    Winner of the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival

    Sunday, July 6 4:30 PM

    The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermiglio, Maura Delpero’s visionary film, which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.

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  • A Photographic Memory

    Rachel Elizabeth Seed
    United States, 2024

    Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards

    Sunday, July 20 4:30 PM

    New York Times Critic’s Pick, A Photographic Memory is an intimate portrait of filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s trailblazing mother, Sheila Turner Seed, who was a vibrant and pioneering journalist, photographer, and filmmaker. “Vividly introspective . . . sumptuous” (Carlos Aguilar, Variety).

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  • Él

    Luis Buñuel
    Mexico, 1953

    4K Digital Restoration

    Wednesday, July 30 7 PM

    A psychological thriller: one of Luis Buñuel’s rawest, angriest indictments of religious and social hypocrisy, Él stands as the Surrealist master’s great excursion into dark melodrama, where civilization can find no answer to the raging urges of the irrational id.

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  • The 400 Blows

    François Truffaut
    France, 1959
    Saturday, August 9 4:30 PM

    Jean-Pierre Léaud plays François Truffaut’s alter ego, Antoine Doinel, in the quintessential coming-of-age film, a lyrical but unsentimental portrait of adolescence and of Paris.

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  • Dragon Inn

    King Hu
    Taiwan, 1967

    4K Digital Restoration

    Thursday, August 14 7 PM

    King Hu’s legendary Dragon Inn merges swordplay, melodrama, history, and Beijing Opera traditions with thrilling results. Viewed obliquely in Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn, it suggests the transient pleasures of cinephilia.

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Past Films

  • Close Your Eyes

    Víctor Erice
    Spain, Argentina, 2023
    Friday, December 6 7:00 PM

    Revered Spanish auteur Víctor Erice (The Spirit of the BeehiveEl Sur, and The Quince Tree Sun) returns with his fourth feature, a meditation on memory, absence, and the magic of cinema—a “poignant cinematic swan song” (Hollywood Reporter). 

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  • The Goldman Case

    Cédric Kahn
    France, 2023
    Wednesday, December 11 7:00 PM

    New York Times Critic’s Pick: “An electrifying courtroom drama” that delves into the sensationalized 1976 trial of Pierre Goldman. The film communicates so much about the complexity of Jewish identity in recent European history.

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  • The Wages of Fear

    Henri-Georges Clouzot
    France, 1953

    4K Digital Restoration

    Friday, December 13 7:00 PM

    Four desperate men are hired by a ruthless oil company to drive trucks filled with explosives across a mountainous South American country in one of the toughest noirs ever filmed. Starring Yves Montand. 

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  • No Fear, No Die

    Claire Denis
    France, 1990

    4K Digital Restoration

    Wednesday, December 18 7:00 PM

    In Claire Denis’s surprising second film, Isaach de Bankolé and Alex Descas play immigrants who train birds for cockfights on the outskirts of Paris. The film “has a seedy, claustrophobic power that says as much about human as about animal exploitation” (Time Out).

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  • Close Your Eyes

    Víctor Erice
    Spain, Argentina, 2023
    Saturday, January 11 3:00 PM

    Revered Spanish auteur Víctor Erice (The Spirit of the BeehiveEl Sur, and The Quince Tree Sun) returns with his fourth feature, a meditation on memory, absence, and the magic of cinema—a “poignant cinematic swan song” (Hollywood Reporter). 

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  • No Fear, No Die

    Claire Denis
    France, 1990

    4K Digital Restoration

    Sunday, January 12 7:00 PM

    In Claire Denis’s surprising second film, Isaach de Bankolé and Alex Descas play immigrants who train birds for cockfights on the outskirts of Paris. The film “has a seedy, claustrophobic power that says as much about human as about animal exploitation” (Time Out).

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  • Fairytale

    Alexander Sokurov
    Belgium, 2022

    Bay Area Premiere

    Wednesday, January 15 7:00 PM

    Fairytale resurrects from the dead, via animated archival imagery, the twentieth-century leaders Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin. A cinematic phantasmagoria that was banned by the Russian censors.

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  • The Goldman Case

    Cédric Kahn
    France, 2023
    Friday, January 24 3:00 PM

    New York Times Critic’s Pick: “An electrifying courtroom drama” that delves into the sensationalized 1976 trial of Pierre Goldman. The film communicates so much about the complexity of Jewish identity in recent European history.

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  • The Wages of Fear

    Henri-Georges Clouzot
    France, 1953

    4K Digital Restoration

    Sunday, January 26 6:00 PM

    Four desperate men are hired by a ruthless oil company to drive trucks filled with explosives across a mountainous South American country in one of the toughest noirs ever filmed. Starring Yves Montand. 

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  • Sátántangó

    Béla Tarr
    Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, 1994

    BAMPFA Collection

    Sunday, February 16 1:00 PM

    Béla Tarr’s extraordinary seven-and-a-half-hour epic Sátántangó. “Set on an entropic collective farm during the last years of Hungarian Communism, it’s a mordant, characteristically Eastern European tale of hapless peasants and charismatic swindlers. . . . Despair has never been more voluptuously precise” (Village Voice).

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  • All We Imagine as Light

    Payal Kapadia
    India, Netherlands, France, Luxembourg, 2024
    Saturday, March 1 3:30 PM

    Crafted with visual poetry and emotional empathy, Payal Kapadia’s drama shines a light on three hospital workers 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.

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  • All We Imagine as Light

    Payal Kapadia
    India, Netherlands, France, Luxembourg, 2024
    Sunday, March 23 5:00 PM

    Crafted with visual poetry and emotional empathy, Payal Kapadia’s drama shines a light on three hospital workers 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.

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  • BAMPFA Student Committee Film Festival

    Free Admission

    Friday, April 4 7:00 PM
    Student Filmmakers in Person

    A selection of outstanding student films from around the Bay Area.

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  • All We Imagine as Light

    Payal Kapadia
    India, Netherlands, France, Luxembourg, 2024
    Sunday, April 13 6:00 PM

    Crafted with visual poetry and emotional empathy, Payal Kapadia’s drama shines a light on three hospital workers 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.

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