Films
Sunday, April 1, 2018
Que Viva Mexico!
Film - Documentary | April 1 | 3:10 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
See Mexico through Eisenstein’s eyes in this compilation of footage shot in 1931, intended for an epic hybrid of documentary and fiction that the director never finished. With short Bezhin Meadow.
The Magician
Film - Feature | April 1 | 4:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
With Max von Sydow as a nineteenth-century mesmerist, “Bergman's chilling exploration of charlatanism is in fact one of his most genuinely enjoyable films . . . much of [it] devoted to wittily ironic sideswipes at bourgeois hypocrisy” (Time Out).
A World Redrawn: Eisenstein and Brecht in Hollywood
Film - Short | April 1 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Experimental filmmaker Zoe Beloff revisits the Hollywood exile of two revolutionaries—Sergei Eisenstein and Bertolt Brecht—in an illustrated presentation and a trilogy of short films.
Monday, April 2, 2018
Critical Discussions in Food Systems Presents: Dolores
Film - Documentary | April 2 | 6-8 p.m. | Morgan Hall, Morgan Lounge
Join Critical Discussions in Food Systems in a screening of "Dolores", a documentary uncovering the journey of the lesser known but just as important labor and and racial justice activist Dolores Huerta.
*DINNER PROVIDED* ~ More details TBA!!
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Ovarian Psycos: April's Movie at Moffitt
Film - Documentary | April 4 | 7-9 p.m. | 405 Moffitt Undergraduate Library
Riding at night through streets deemed dangerous in Eastside Los Angeles, the Ovarian Psycos use their bicycles to confront the violence in their lives... The film Ovarian Psycos rides along with the Ovas, exploring the impact of the group's activism, born of feminist ideals, indigenous understanding and an urban/-hood mentality, on neighborhood women and communities as they confront injustice,... More >
Must have a UCB student ID for entrance.
April's Movie
In the Intense Now
Film - Feature | April 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. “It’s a documentary that’s really a meditation—history made poetic” (Variety).
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Angels Wear White
Film - Feature | April 5 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The assault of two underage girls by a local official in a sunlight-bathed seaside town becomes the focal point for this seething study of the challenges women face in Chinese society.
The Distant Barking of Dogs
Film - Feature | April 5 | 8:40 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In the midst of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, a loving, wise, and defiant grandmother raises her two young grandsons. Director Simon Lereng Wilmont lends sensitivity and entrancing visuals to a nuanced portrait of war and its corrosive effect.
Friday, April 6, 2018
The Third Murder
Film - Feature | April 6 | 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Master director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film is a tour-de-force examination of guilt and justice. The incomparable Koji Yakusho plays a man who confesses to a murder but may be hiding a more complicated truth.
Crisis
Film - Feature | April 6 | 7:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The seductions and disillusionments of city life play counterpoint to provincial goodness in this morality tale of a young daughter pulled between the worlds of her two mothers.
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Film - Feature | April 6 | 8:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Chronicling Jean-Michel Basquiat’s teen years in 1970s New York City, this documentary presents a fresh and vibrant look at the young artist as a reflection of the time and place where he grew up.
Saturday, April 7, 2018
The Price of Everything
Film - Feature | April 7 | 1 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A major Sotheby’s auction is the focal point for this broad exploration of the exploding market in contemporary art, featuring incredibly candid interviews with collectors, curators, and artists.
The Judge
Film - Feature | April 7 | 3:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih became the first female appointed to any of the Middle East’s Shari’a courts in 2009. This intimate portrait captures the determined and compassionate judge as she strives to achieve justice in a system that so often does not favor women.
No Date, No Signature
Film - Feature | April 7 | 5:45 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A car accident at night causes escalating damage and forces all involved to confront issues of moral responsibility in this second feature from Vahid Jalilvand, an impressive Iranian theater director.
The Workshop
Film - Feature | April 7 | 8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A writing workshop on France’s Mediterranean coast becomes a microcosm for the fraught divisions in present-day French society in this film from the Palme d’Or–winning director of 2008’s The Class.
Sunday, April 8, 2018
Un traductor
Film - Feature | April 8 | 12:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Bringing to light a little-known piece of Cuban history, this moving and understated medical drama set in 1989 Havana tells the story of a Russian teacher drafted to serve as a translator for children from Chernobyl. Westworld’s Rodrigo Santoro stars.
Crisis
Film - Feature | April 8 | 3 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The seductions and disillusionments of city life play counterpoint to provincial goodness in this morality tale of a young daughter pulled between the worlds of her two mothers.
A Man of Integrity
Film - Feature | April 8 | 3:15 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Power struggles and moral compromises feed an escalating conflict when an uncompromising fish farmer clashes with his neighbor and a powerful company that sets its sights on his land. Winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes.
The Shape of a Surface: Experimental Shorts
Film - Feature | April 8 | 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In this diverse program showcasing the film medium itself, history and the world are reframed. Featuring works by arc, Stephanie Barber, Paul Clipson, Nazli Dincel, Jim Jennings, Pablo Mazzolo, Alee Peoples, and Jennifer Separzadeh.
First Reformed
Film - Feature | April 8 | 8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A minister finds newfound meaning and reawakened desire when a lovely parishioner seeks his counsel in this film from legendary writer/director Paul Schrader. With memorable performances by Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, and Cedric the Entertainer.
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Alexander Nevsky
Film - Feature | April 11 | 3:10 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Eisenstein’s first completed sound film has a score by Sergei Prokofiev to propel its tale of a thirteenth-century hero confronting foreign invaders.
Heather Booth: Changing the World: Film Screening and Q and A with Organizer Heather Booth
Film - Documentary | April 11 | 5-7 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), Large Conference Room
Heather Booth is the most influential person you never heard of.
Join us for a screening of the newest film by critically acclaimed filmmaker Lilly Rivlin, Heather Booth: Changing the World. This film is an urgent response to the recent election of Trump and all that has ensued. At a time when many are wondering how to make their voices heard, when civil and women's rights are under attack,... More >
Purge This Land
Film - Feature | April 11 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Weaving the story and letters of radical American abolitionist John Brown and the attack on Harper’s Ferry with her own personal history, Lee Ann Schmitt uses her signature essay style to create a profound portrait of America today.
The Other Side of Everything
Film - Feature | April 11 | 8:40 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In 1945, Mila Turajlić’s family apartment in Belgrade was divided and redistributed by the government; because of her mother’s activism, they were spied on from the very rooms they used to own. In this film, mother and daughter reflect on their complicated personal and political histories.
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Suleiman Mountain
Film - Feature | April 12 | 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A young Kyrgyz boy is taken out an orphanage and into the lives of his supposed parents, who make ends meet by running cons on unsuspecting villagers, in this beautifully filmed tale that interweaves mythological and comedic elements.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Film - Feature | April 12 | 8:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Award-winning photographer RaMell Ross’s inspired and intimate portrait of an African American community in rural Alabama captures small but precious moments in black lives with rapturous attention.
Friday, April 13, 2018
Shirkers
Film - Feature | April 13 | 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A lost-and-found film made in Singapore decades ago prompts this buoyant personal documentary about movie love, female friendship, and the urge for creative expression. Winner of the Directing Award, World Cinema Documentary, at Sundance.
A Ship Bound for India
Film - Feature | April 13 | 7:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A salvage boat provides the claustrophobic but fascinating space for a narrative of filial revolt against an overbearing father in Bergman’s waterfront noir, reminiscent of Marcel Carné’s French films.
Tigre
Film - Feature | April 13 | 8:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In a boarded-up family estate in Argentina’s mysterious and ancient Tigre delta, three generations gather to decide whether to sell their property to developers, and interpersonal conflicts build to a powerful crescendo.
Saturday, April 14, 2018
Bisbee ’17
Film - Feature | April 14 | 12 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
This hybrid film revisits the violent deportation of striking copper miners from Bisbee, Arizona, a century ago, tapping into the current political climate while questioning what is the “real” history
Minding the Gap
Film - Feature | April 14 | 3 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In Rockford, Illinois, Bing Liu has been filming his friends on and off their skateboards for ten years. His film is less a documentary about skate culture than a fresh and powerful coming-of-age story.
I Am Not a Witch
Film - Feature | April 14 | 5:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
With this strikingly beautiful first feature, Rungano Nyoni layers magic realism, satire, and social critique in the original and unforgettable story of a girl accused of witchcraft and exiled from her village.
Sunday, April 15, 2018
Wajib
Film - Feature | April 15 | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In Annemarie Jacir’s charming and poignant new film, a Palestinian father and son living in Israel deliver wedding invitations over the course of an afternoon while personal and political tensions simmer in the background.
Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable
Film - Feature | April 15 | 1 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
This gorgeous and lively look at Garry Winogrand and his work uses still images, home movie footage, and revelatory, recently discovered audio recordings to illustrate why many consider him to be the foremost photographer of post–World War II America.
A Ship Bound for India
Film - Feature | April 15 | 3 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A salvage boat provides the claustrophobic but fascinating space for a narrative of filial revolt against an overbearing father in Bergman’s waterfront noir, reminiscent of Marcel Carné’s French films.
Nathaniel Dorsky: Four Films
Film - Feature | April 15 | 5:45 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Four ephemeral worlds emerge in this selection of shorts by Nathaniel Dorsky, this year’s recipient of the Persistence of Vision Award. The films are Autumn, Avraham, The Dreamer, and Intimations.
Godard, mon amour
Film - Feature | April 15 | 8:15 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Portraying Jean-Luc Godard at the pivotal moment when he made La Chinoise and fell in love with leading lady Anne Wiazemsky, Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) pays homage to Godard’s genius even as he cheekily sends up the director’s excesses and pretensions.
Monday, April 16, 2018
Elephant's Dream: A Film by Kristof Bilsen
Film - Documentary | April 16 | 6-8 p.m. | Doe Library, Room 180
Kristof Bilsen, Director/Producer
Free Speech Movement Café Educational Programs, Department of Geography, Center for African Studies
Set in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Elephant's Dream is a breath-taking documentary that captures the daily lives of Congolese street-level civil servants in Kinshasa and Bas-Congo. Discussion with the director/producer to follow. Free to the public. For more information please contact us: fsmprograms@lists.berkeley.edu, 510-768-7618.
Elephant's Dream
Film - Documentary | April 16 | 6-8 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Kristof Bilsen, Filmaker, Director, Co-Producer
Dr. Ann A. Laudati, Ciriacy-Wanthrup Research Fellow, Department of Geography, UCB; Adam Clemons, Librarian for African and African American Studies, UC Berkeley Library
Center for African Studies, Free Speech Movement Café Educational Programs, Department of Geography
The Republic of Congo is a country mainly represented by stories of violence, rape, rebels and crime. In Elephant’s Dream, director Kristof Bilsen takes us beyond these usual reports and provides poetic and compassionate insight into a country in transition.
Kristof Bilsen (Director, Co-Producer) completed a filmmaking BA in Brussels (2002) and then worked as a cinematographer, editor and... More >
Kristof Bilsen
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Film - Feature | April 18 | 3:10 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In sixteenth-century Moscow, the newly crowned Czar Ivan battles both the nobility and the church in an effort to unify Russia. Scored by Sergei Prokofiev, Eisenstein’s painterly film is like a fresco come to life.
Strong Island
Film - Feature | April 18 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The murder of the filmmaker’s brother forms the basis of this powerful, disturbing, and very personal documentary on one family’s suffering and an entire society’s injustice and institutional racism. “A masterpiece for difficult times” (Film Quarterly).
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Green White Green
Film - Feature | April 19 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Three friends join together to get through the dog days of a Lagos summer—and create a film—in this salute to the creativity and vitality of Nigerian youth, which has garnered comparisons to early Spike Lee.
Friday, April 20, 2018
La ciénaga
Film - Feature | April 20 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Two extended families suffer through a heat wave in Martel’s award-winning portrayal of social inertia, class, and racial dynamics. “Every shot is dense with life, yet the movie is highly focused, a small masterpiece” (Meredith Brody, Chicago Reader).
Music in the Dark
Film - Feature | April 20 | 7:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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.
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Cal Day Event: From Incarceration to Education
Film - Short | April 21 | 11 a.m.-2 p.m. | 105 Stanley Hall
Jonathan Simon, Keynote Speaker and Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
Skylar Economy, Film Producer and Member, Underground Scholars Initiative; David Maldonado, Featured Student and Member, Underground Scholars Initiative
Clarence Ford, Featured Student and Member, Underground Scholars Initiative
Join the Underground Scholars Initiative and the American Cultures Center for a screening of FITE (From Incarceration to Education), a short documentary about formerly incarcerated students at UC Berkeley and their paths to higher education and success. The film screening will include keynote speaker Jonathan Simon and a Q&A panel with the students in the film. Reception to follow.
RSVP online or by calling 510-664-7065 by April 15.
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Film - Feature | April 21 | 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In sixteenth-century Moscow, the newly crowned Czar Ivan battles both the nobility and the church in an effort to unify Russia. Scored by Sergei Prokofiev, Eisenstein’s painterly film is like a fresco come to life.
Ivan the Terrible, Part II
Film - Feature | April 21 | 8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The second part of Eisenstein’s unfinished trilogy follows Ivan’s return to the throne and his ruthless opposition to the schemes of the nobility to keep Russia divided among its princes and foreign interests.
Sunday, April 22, 2018
Music in the Dark
Film - Feature | April 22 | 3 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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.
Zama
Film - Feature | April 22 | 5 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Martel’s latest feature is a glimpse into the colonial abyss, adapted from a famed Argentine novel about a Spanish officer in a remote proto-Paraguayan outpost. “Perplexing and thrilling in equal measure” (Variety).
The Headless Woman
Film - Feature | April 22 | 8:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A woman involved in a potentially tragic hit-and-run accident tries to ignore what happened in Martel’s disorienting, critically acclaimed suspense thriller. “If Hitchcock and Antonioni ever had an interest in class guilt, you’d have Martel” (Wesley Morris).
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Ivan the Terrible, Part II
Film - Feature | April 25 | 3:10 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The second part of Eisenstein’s unfinished trilogy follows Ivan’s return to the throne and his ruthless opposition to the schemes of the nobility to keep Russia divided among its princes and foreign interests.
The Manchurian Candidate
Film - Feature | April 25 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
File this sobering satire, starring Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey, under “Brainwashing, fear of.” The film “takes enormous chances with the audience, and plays not like a ‘classic’ but as a work as alive and smart as when it was first released” (Roger Ebert).
Thursday, April 26, 2018
The Fabulous Baron Münchausen
Film - Feature | April 26 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Czech animator Karel Zeman captures the wonder in Gustave Doré’s illustrations for a classic novel by using live action against a series of fairy-tale backgrounds and enchanting visual pyrotechnics. With Méliès/Jules Verne short Impossible Voyage.
Friday, April 27, 2018
Infrastructure of the Universe
Film - Feature | April 27 | 3:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
This program of short films explores how the interweaving of built, natural, and virtual media environments shapes our world.
A Brief History of Time
Film - Feature | April 27 | 5:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Errol Morris’s acclaimed film, based on Stephen Hawking’s book, is a humanly scaled, biographical study of a singular mind navigating a very big universe.
Time Regained
Film - Feature | April 27 | 8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
“For those who know the final volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Ruiz’s 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).
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Maliglutit (Searchers)
Film - Feature | April 28 | 3 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Maliglutit (Searchers) continues in the breathtaking vein of Canadian-Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk’s unforgettable Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner with a story of cruelty and cold revenge inspired by John Ford’s The Searchers and spoken entirely in Inuktitut.
Neruda
Film - Feature | April 28 | 5:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Pablo Larraín’s film “playfully and provocatively distorts the facts of an extraordinary year in the life of the Chilean Nobel prize–winning poet: Neruda is an anti-biopic” (The Guardian).
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Film - Feature | April 28 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
From dutiful conservative Southern son to gay activist and San Francisco chronicler, Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin looks at his life with wry humor and some choice true tales.
Jesus' Son
Film - Feature | April 28 | 8:15 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
We pay tribute to the late author Denis Johnson with the film adaptation of his classic short story collection Jesus’ Son. Three esteemed authors and friends of Johnson introduce the film and share stories.
Sunday, April 29, 2018
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Film - Documentary | April 29 | 8:45 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Built around interviews with former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Morris’s Academy Award–winning film is a haunted reflection on US military power from World War II through the war in Vietnam.
