New arrivals at the BAMPFA Store! 📆✨ Find 2027 calendars and planners for art lovers, film buffs, Ghibli fans, and more!
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Marjorie Keller Films: Wed, Oct 21, 7 PM
Discover the work of a key figure in experimental cinema whose feminist, handmade films blend poetic imagery, portraits, and social critique. Introduction by experimental film curator and author Steve Anker.
🎟️ bampfa.org/film
Coming up at BAMPFA: LA MAISON DES BOIS 🇫🇷
Experience Maurice Pialat’s acclaimed seven-part miniseries in a 4K restoration. Set in rural France during WWI, this intimate portrait captures how war transforms a family and their community.
Get tickets: bampfa.org/film
🗞️ Upcoming Wrenching News Workshop! All ages are invited.
Sat / Oct 17 / 3 PM
Thu / Nov 5 / 3 PM
✨ Included with gallery admission.
"Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing" is on view through Nov. 29. bampfa.org/hassinger
Starting Oct. 31, "The Cinema of Masaki Kobayashi: Midcareer Masterworks" 🎬
Explore the Japanese director’s powerful films of resistance, including HARAKIRI, KWAIDAN, and SAMURAI REBELLION. Featuring 35mm prints and a new 4K restoration of KWAIDAN.
🎟️ bampfa.org/film
Now open: “Campus Collaborations / Private Frontiers: Media Legacies of the Cold War.”
Featuring Naeem Mohaiemen, Prajakta Potnis, TJ Shin, and Tiffany Sia, the exhibition explores how media and politics intersected during the Cold War.
bampfa.org/private-frontiers
"Jean-Luc Godard’s Early Films" continues through November 19! 🎬
Explore the filmmaker’s radical experiments with jump cuts, storytelling, and text, image, and sound—and the films that inspired generations of directors.
🎟️ bampfa.org/film
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K-Cinema Touring is going to San Francisco for the very first time, in collaboration with SFMOMA and BAMPFA!
📅 Nov 12–14, 2026
📍 SFMOMA & BAMPFA
🎟️ Tickets: Check the SFMOMA and BAMPFA websites for details.
#kcinematouring #koreancinema #yimsoonrye #sanfrancisco
Take a look at "Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces"✨
Explore the Chilean artist’s feminist practice and creative resistance before the exhibition closes on November 15!
🎟️ bampfa.org
October 18 at 3 PM: SHAIHU UMAR 🎬
Adamu Halilu’s landmark Nigerian film was rediscovered in 2016 and digitally restored by Berlin’s Arsenal Filminstitut. Set in 19th-century northern Nigeria, the film is introduced by Stefanie Schulte Strathaus.
🎟️ bampfa.org/film
Oct. 31 at 1 PM: Steffani Jemison and Leslie Cuyjet reflect on the artistic partnership of Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi through improvised dance and thread, alongside archival projections. 🌿 Tickets required; gallery admission included.
🎟️ bampfa.org/hassinger
Coming up Oct. 14–18: "Stefanie Schulte Strathaus: Modes of Archivism" 🎬
BAMPFA welcomes Stefanie for a week of talks and presentations on film archives, restoration, and curatorial practice, including the free Mosse Lecture on Oct 16.
🎟️ bampfa.org/film
The final days of MVFF49 are here at BAMPFA! 🎬✨
atch one of the remaining screenings Oct. 10–11, including UNION TOWN, SAD GIRLZ, ON BEHALF OF MY SON, A GIRL UNKNOWN, and more!
🎟️ bampfa.org/mvffa
Have you experienced "Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing" yet? 🌿✨
Explore sculpture, performance, video, and installation spanning Hassinger’s career from the early 1970s to the present. On view at BAMPFA through Nov. 29.
🎟️ bampfa.org/hassinger
Coming up Oct. 23–Nov. 28: "Hong Kong Cinema: Rarities and Restorations" 🎬
Explore rare films spanning key moments in Hong Kong cinema, from THE ARCH to CENTER STAGE.
🎟️ bampfa.org/film
Second Saturday for Families is Oct 10! Gallery admission is free for kids under 13 + one accompanying adult.
Special family programming:
🎨 11:30 AM — Wind Chime Sculpture
📚 2:30 PM — Bilingual Roundtable Reading: "The One and Only Ivan"
bampfa.org/family-programs
Don't miss “Martin Scorsese Pictures”
This extensive retrospective explores the themes and cinematic language that have shaped Scorsese’s six-decade career. If you haven’t made it to a screening yet, there’s plenty more Scorsese to come.
Learn more: bampfa.org/scorsese
Judith Scott’s "Untitled" (2002) is on view in “Some Particular Heaven” at BAMPFA 🧶✨
Created during her time at Creative Growth, the wrapped fiber sculpture reflects the independence and self-direction that defined her practice. Learn more at bampfa.org.
MVFF49 starts this week at BAMPFA, and we’re getting ready to host ten screenings spanning documentary, drama, and international cinema!
BAMPFA members receive discounted pricing on all MVFF49 screenings. Browse the lineup and get tickets at bampfa.org/mvff 🎟️









































