Documentary Voices February 5–April 30, 2025 BAMPFA’s annual selection of compelling nonfiction films begins with a visit by Ukrainian filmmaker…
BAMPFA Smiles of a Summer Night: Swedish Auteurs
July 11–August 29, 2025 The second installment in our ongoing Swedish Cinema Project, following this spring’s Mai Zetterling centennial series,…
BAMPFA In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City
June 6–July 24, 2025 In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City, inspired by author, film historian, and critic Imogen…
The French Had a Name for It
Cloning from Drew, and updating with most recent years.
Don Malcolm's annual program of French noir. The 2024 program for…
BAMPFA Presents: Ukrainian Cinema: Poetry and Resistance
March 21–April 13, 2025 From the program notes: The historian Timothy Snyder considers Ukraine to be part of the “bloodlands,”…
German Feature Films Premiering in Nazi
Every feature-length German film (excluding documentaries) that premiered in Nazi era (i.e. January 30, 1933 - May 1945). h/t…
Cinematic Playlist - The Lone Wolf 1917-1949
A chronological listing of Lone Wolf films.
The Lone Wolf is the nickname of the fictional character Michael Lanyard, a…
Berkeley African Film Festival 2023
From the BAMPFA website: "We present this series annually, largely drawn from the African Film Festival National Traveling Series, a…
BAMPFA presents: Chinese Musicals from 1957 to 1963
Film series presented by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in October, 2023.
Film expert Paul Fonoroff [presents]…
Emperor's List
Every year there are highly praised films that leave me completely cold. They appear on Top Ten lists, have high…