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BAMPFA (Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive)
43 upcoming events for kids and families at BAMPFA (Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive), straight from the calendar we read every week.
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On display from Sep 9 - Dec 13, 2026 | 11 am - 7 p.m. Bookended by the end of World War II in 1945 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Cold War was a transformative period in global history, marking both the end of the twentieth century and the waning of modernism. Though earlier historians defined the Cold Wa…
"What is acting after all?" Maddalena (Anna Magnani) rhetorically asks before the mirror in Luchino Visconti's melodrama of mother love and misplaced ambition. Magnani's extraordinary performance is its own answer. As a working-class mother desperate to get her young daughter a shot at stardom through a Cinecittà casti…
Martin Scorsese grew up listening to seminal rock DJ Alan Freed, and from Mean Streets onward, his movies have been driven by the power of rock and roll. His love of music is innate and instinctual, so when The Band decided to hang it up after seventeen years on the road, they chose Scorsese to film their farewell conc…
WEDNESDAY
23
SEPTEMBER
It Will Be Better Before began as a collaboration between two directors. After five years, one of the directors, Keto Kipiani, re-edited and modified the film, sharing her perspective and feelings throughout the creation process. "The title, with its mixed tenses that collapse time, conveys the confused desperation of…
Keto Kipiani’s and Anka Gujabidze’s works.
THURSDAY
24
SEPTEMBER
Based on feminist writer Tamta Melashvili's celebrated novel, this gem of a film follows Etero (Eka Chavleishvili), a forty-eight-year-old woman who lives happily in a provincial Georgian village. Content with her independent lifestyle, Etero's world is changed by a near-death experience. Naveriani's deft direction off…
FRIDAY
25
SEPTEMBER
An old railway platform in a remote valley of Georgia becomes a site for change in this documentary about the New Silk Road.
The stationmaster in Zvare, a remote valley town in Georgia, is bracing himself for change. Soon the high-speed trains of the New Silk Road will race through the old train station built in 1890, during the period of Tsar Nicholas II. The Chinese-led construction project is blasting through the mountains to construct th…
With astonishing cinematic style, Taming the Gardentracks the surreal uprooting of ancient trees from their Georgian locales. With each removal, tensions flare between workers and villagers. Some see financial incentives—new roads, handsome fees—while others angrily mourn the loss of what was assumed to be an immovable…
Salomé Jashi’s environmental tale about a tree‑like structure traveling across the Black Sea toward a garden.
SATURDAY
26
SEPTEMBER
Free symposium timed with the launch of the Georgian Cinema Now series.
Free and open to the public, this symposium offers an invaluable introduction to the current political and cultural context in the Republic of Georgia. Guest speakers will offer a range of perspectives, from analyzing the political situation under the current Georgian Dream government to sharing experiences from the fi…
Included with admission. Artist Beatriz Escobar leads participants through a contemplative salt‑bath experience.
Rasha Salti joins cocurator Natalia Brizuela to discuss Palestinian–Chilean solidarity and broader transnational solidarity.
Levan Akin’s feature about a Georgian woman searching for her trans‑niece in Istanbul.
"One of the most hotly anticipated LGBTQ+ films of 2024, Crossing is the fourth feature from Swedish auteur Levan Akin (And Then We Danced; AMC's Interview with the Vampire). The film follows Lia, a retired schoolteacher, who makes good on a promise to trace the whereabouts of her long-lost niece Tekla, who she's told…
SUNDAY
27
SEPTEMBER
On display from Sep 9 - Dec 13, 2026 | 11 am - 7 p.m. Bookended by the end of World War II in 1945 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Cold War was a transformative period in global history, marking both the end of the twentieth century and the waning of modernism. Though earlier historians defined the Cold Wa…
Included with admission. Join artist Julia Goodman in creating collaborative newspaper artwork.
Two documentaries examining linguistic reforms and commercial development in Georgian society.
Georgia's movement to teach English to schoolchildren is the backdrop for this beautifully observed documentary about an English teacher, Bradley Nelson from South Africa, and his experiences in a remote Georgian village, Sajijao. There he encounters both the warmth of the local community, and some resistance to the "l…
Included with admission.
Archival video documentation of a 1993 parliamentary session related to the Georgian coupon.
Derived solely from video recordings of Georgian parliamentary proceedings on June 10, 1993, when Eduard Shevardnadze was the head of state, An Incomplete Day in the History of Georgia presents the debate surrounding the introduction of Georgia's national currency coupon to replace the Russian ruble. Members of parliam…
WEDNESDAY
30
SEPTEMBER
Anna Dziapshipa was born in Tbilisi to an Abkhazian father and a Georgian mother. As a child, her Abkhazian surname was initially associated with her grandfather's footballing success, but it has since become closely linked to the conflict that has kept the two nations in opposition since 1992. This situation had a pro…
Anna Dziapshipa’s personal and political biography of Georgia–Abkhazia relations.
THURSDAY
1
OCTOBER
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.
Included with admission.
Two documentaries offering insight into the inspirations behind Martin Scorsese’s work.
Martin Scorsese's documentaries are like portals to his sources of inspiration, and Italianamerican takes us to the heart of the matter via a conversation with his parents. As his mother prepares meatballs, she and her husband tell the stories of their families' journeys from Sicily to Elizabeth Street, which speak vol…
FRIDAY
2
OCTOBER
A seaside community is rocked after an elder dies by suicide. "[Elene] Naveriani's beautifully realized, award-winning drama unfolds with quiet power, as the tensions and long-held prejudices within the sleepy Black Sea village build inexorably to their dramatic denouement. Granddaughter Moe—an urban outlier with a reb…
Elene Naveriani’s film about far‑right political protests against LGBTQ anti‑discrimination laws.
SATURDAY
3
OCTOBER
Julia Loktev’s follow‑up documentary about Russian journalists covering the war in Ukraine.
SUNDAY
4
OCTOBER
On display from Sep 9 - Dec 13, 2026 | 11 am - 7 p.m. Bookended by the end of World War II in 1945 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Cold War was a transformative period in global history, marking both the end of the twentieth century and the waning of modernism. Though earlier historians defined the Cold Wa…
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