Films
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Wings of a Serf
Film - Feature | May 2 | 3:10 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Directed by the Belarusian Yuri Tarich, this extraordinary 1926 Soviet silent film set in the sixteenth century was influential in the direction of Eisensteins two-part Ivan the Terrible (1944-46).
Mankiller: May's Movie at Moffitt
Film - Documentary | May 2 | 7-9 p.m. | 405 Moffitt Undergraduate Library
"This is the story of an American hero and legend, one who stands tall amongst the likes of Robert Kennedy, Harriet Tubman, and Martin Luther King, Jr. -- and yet few people know her name. Wilma Mankiller is someone who humbly defied the odds to fight injustice and give a voice to the voiceless. She overcame rampant sexism and personal challenges to emerge as the Cherokee Nation's first female... More >
Must have a UCB student ID for entrance.

May Movie at Moffitt
Africa and the Diaspora: Short Films
Film - Feature | May 2 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Tonights program mingles short African fiction films with documentary essays from the diaspora. Discover works by Alassane Sy and Mamadou Dia (Senegal), Cedric Ido (Burkina Faso), Lebert Bethune (Jamaica), and Carlos Javier Ortiz (Oakland by way of Chicago).
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Sawdust and Tinsel
Film - Feature | May 3 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Åke Grönberg and Harriet Andersson portray turn-of-the-century circus performers in Bergmans earliest evocation of the theater of humiliation.
Friday, May 4, 2018
In the Intense Now
Film - Documentary | May 4 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Salles portrays the pivotal, tumultuous 1960s through archival footage and home movies from May 68 Paris, Soviet-invaded Czechoslovakia, China during the Cultural Revolution, and Brazil under military rule. Its a documentary thats really a meditationhistory made poetic (Variety).
Thirst
Film - Feature | May 4 | 7:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A voyage across a war-scarred Europe forms the background of a married couples collapsing relationship in Bergmans dreamlike early look at isolation, emotional torment, and romantic masochism. A sort of Voyage in Italy revised by Sartre (Cinema 58).
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Way Bay on Screen
Film - Feature | May 5 | 4 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
This selection of works from the exhibition Way Bay reveals the rich and varied landscape and people of the Bay Area. Featuring a time capsule of San Francisco before the 1906 quake and works by Bruce Baillie, Alice Anne Parker (Severson), Sara Kathyrn Arledge, and Ernie Gehr.
The Holy Girl
Film - Feature | May 5 | 7:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
An adolescent girl tries to save a man from sin in Martels hallucinatory look at religious devotion, sexual awakening, Lolita obsessions, and Catholic repressions in small-town Argentina. A film that defies categorization, but Im tempted to call it a miracle (A. O. Scott).
Sunday, May 6, 2018
Time Regained
Film - Feature | May 6 | 3:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
For those who know the final volume of Marcel Prousts In Search of Lost Time, Ruizs film sets off its own chain of memories and associations; for those who do not, it serves as a superb introduction to the shape and texture of the Proustian universe (Dave Kehr).
Thirst
Film - Feature | May 6 | 4:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A voyage across a war-scarred Europe forms the background of a married couples collapsing relationship in Bergmans dreamlike early look at isolation, emotional torment, and romantic masochism. A sort of Voyage in Italy revised by Sartre (Cinema 58).
Vaya
Film - Feature | May 6 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Three strangers from the South African hinterlands journey to bustling Johannesburg looking for success but find far more than they bargained for in this well-crafted urban noir, an Amores perros for twenty-first-century Africa.
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
The Virgin Spring
Film - Feature | May 9 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A stark medieval allegory of faith, sexual violence, and revenge. Sven Nykvist's luminous black-and-white photography conspire[s] with the austerity of Bergman's imagery to create an extraordinary metaphysical charge (Time Out).
Thursday, May 10, 2018
The Headless Woman
Film - Feature | May 10 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A woman involved in a potentially tragic hit-and-run accident tries to ignore what happened in Martels disorienting, critically acclaimed suspense thriller. If Hitchcock and Antonioni ever had an interest in class guilt, youd have Martel (Wesley Morris).
Friday, May 11, 2018
Eight Hours Dont Make a Day, Part 2: Oma and Gregor
Film - Feature | May 11 | 8:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The search for an affordable apartment leads Oma and Gregor down an unexpected path in this second episode of the series.
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Eight Hours Dont Make a Day, Part 3: Franz and Ernst
Film - Feature | May 12 | 4:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In the third episode, the factory workers want Franz (Wolfgang Schenck) for their foreman, but management has other ideas.
Eight Hours Dont Make a Day, Part 4: Harald and Monika
Film - Feature | May 12 | 6:45 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The fourth episode of the series focuses on the personal struggles and complications that characters face outside working hours.
Eight Hours Dont Make a Day, Part 5: Irmgard and Rolf
Film - Feature | May 12 | 8:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In the final episode, management announces that the business is moving, and Jochen and his crew face new challenges and responsibilities.
Sunday, May 13, 2018
Eight Hours Dont Make a Day, Part 1: Jochen and Marion
Film - Series | May 13 | 11:30 a.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
As the series begins, tool maker Jochen (Gottfried John) and his crew are under pressure at the factory, and we meet Marion (Hanna Schygulla), Oma (Luise Ullrich), and Gregor (Werner Finck).
Eight Hours Dont Make a Day, Part 2: Oma and Gregor
Film - Series | May 13 | 1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The search for an affordable apartment leads Oma and Gregor down an unexpected path in this second episode of the series.
Eight Hours Dont Make a Day, Part 3: Franz and Ernst
Film - Series | May 13 | 3:45 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In the third episode, the factory workers want Franz (Wolfgang Schenck) for their foreman, but management has other ideas.
Eight Hours Dont Make a Day, Part 4: Harald and Monika
Film - Series | May 13 | 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The fourth episode of the series focuses on the personal struggles and complications that characters face outside working hours.
Eight Hours Dont Make a Day, Part 5: Irmgard and Rolf
Film - Series | May 13 | 7:45 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In the final episode, management announces that the business is moving, and Jochen and his crew face new challenges and responsibilities.
Saturday, May 26, 2018
Benjamin Michel
Film - Feature | May 26 | 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Filmmaker Michel offers a presentation exploring the works of African-descended directors, past and present, who challenge the medium through their artistic voices.
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Greta Garbo Rarities
Film - Feature | May 30 | 3 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
This program of rare film fragments, commercials, and newsreels from the archives of the Swedish Film Institute offers glimpses of Garbo at various points throughout her career.