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10/30/2026

HARAKIRI is the #1 film on Letterboxd and BAMPFA is screening it next month 👀

Directed by Masaki Kobayashi, this 1962 classic follows a samurai who challenges the rigid authority of Japan’s feudal era. With striking black-and-white cinematography and a powerful critique of entrenched power, HARAKIRI remains as resonant today as ever.

Upcoming Screenings:
Fri / Nov 6 / 7 PM
Fri / Nov 20 / 4 PM

🎟️ Get tickets at bampfa.org/harakiri

10/29/2026

Next Thursday is Free First Thursday at BAMPFA! ✨

Join us November 5 for a full day of free gallery admission, art, and creative activities:
🌿 1:15 PM — Curator’s Tour / Anthony Graham on "Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing"
🎨 1:15 PM — Exhibition Tour / "Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing"
🗞️ 3 PM — Wrenching News Workshop with artist Julia Goodman. Twist and knot newspapers to contribute to Hassinger’s evolving collaborative installation!

Whether you’re exploring the galleries, joining a tour, or getting hands-on in a workshop, there’s plenty to discover. 💫

Gallery admission is free all day. The Wrenching News Workshop is free with gallery admission, and all ages are welcome to participate.

Learn more and plan your visit at bampfa.org or the link in bio. 🖼️

10/28/2026

Coming up November 13–14: "Yim Soon-rye in Person" 🎬✨

BAMPFA welcomes one of South Korea’s leading filmmakers for a special two-film program celebrating her heartfelt, human-centered storytelling. From WAIKIKI BROTHERS (2001), a now-cult film about a nightclub cover band chasing fading dreams, to LITTLE FOREST (2018), a quietly restorative story about food, nature, and finding one’s way, Yim’s films explore the challenges of everyday life with warmth, humor, and compassion.

Fri / Nov 13 / 4 PM – WAIKIKI BROTHERS by Yim Soon-rye, South Korea, 2001
Sat / Nov 14 / 6:30 PM – LITTLE FOREST by Yim Soon-rye, South Korea, 2018

"Yim Soon-rye in Person" is co-presented with the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

Browse the screenings and get tickets at bampfa.org/film or the link in bio. 🎟️

10/27/2026

Join us for the final Wrenching News Workshop on Free First Thursday! 🗞️✨

On Thursday, November 5 at 3 PM, Berkeley-based artist Julia Goodman invites participants of all ages to twist and knot newspapers according to Maren Hassinger’s specifications. Your contribution will become part of Wrenching News, a collaborative installation in "Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing." Come get hands-on with art and help bring this evolving artwork to life! 🌿

Gallery admission is free all day, so make a day of exploring BAMPFA. "Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing" is on view through November 29.

Learn more and plan your visit at bampfa.org/hassinger or the link in bio.

10/26/2026

📅 Mark your calendars! BAMPFA’s Winter Film Season is almost here, and we’re getting ready for another season of great cinema. 🎬✨

Member-exclusive presale starts Wednesday, November 4 at 11 AM
Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, November 6 at 11 AM

BAMPFA members get first access to tickets, so make sure your membership is up to date! Not a member yet? Join today for only $40 and enjoy early access to the season.

Stay tuned for the full lineup, and get ready to plan your next trip to the movies. 🎞️

10/25/2026

Sun / Nov 1 / 4 PM: THE VALIANT ONES ⚔️🎬

In King Hu’s martial arts classic, a skilled husband-and-wife swordfighting duo is called upon to defend China against Japanese pirates and corrupt officials. With elegant swordplay, intricate schemes, and a legendary forest fight scene, this 1975 masterpiece blends action and strategy into a thrilling tale of loyalty and betrayal.

See this classic from the BAMPFA collection as part of "Hong Kong Cinema: Rarities and Restorations."

Copresented by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, San Francisco and the C. V. Starr East Asian Library at UC Berkeley.

🎟️ Get tickets at bampfa.org/film or the link in bio.

10/24/2026

Did you spot the Rothko in GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY? 👀🔍

In the film, Mark Rothko's "Number 207 (Red over Dark Blue on Dark Gray)" gets hung upside down—but at BAMPFA, you can see the very same Rothko straight from the BAMPFA collection right side up!

Come see it for yourself in "Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection," on view until July 11, 2027. ✨

🖼️ Learn more and plan your visit at bampfa.org or the link in bio.

"Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection" is curated by Tausif Noor , Assistant Curator, and Elaine Yau, Associate Curator and Academic Liaison.

📸:
1. GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY – Rian Johnson, United States, 2022
2. Chris Grunder

10/23/2026

Sun / Nov 8 / 1 PM – Mapping Utopias 🗺️✨

What does utopia look like in your everyday life? Join educator, anthropologist, and community organizer Isa Prieto for a creative workshop exploring where we find belonging, care, joy, and possibility in our communities. Through discussion and a collaborative mapmaking activity, participants will identify the everyday spaces that already offer glimpses of a better world—and imagine how we might strengthen and expand them. 🌱

Presented in conjunction with "Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection", this workshop explores imagination as a tool for collective change.

Space is limited, and RSVP is required. Learn more and reserve your spot bampfa.org/mapping-utopias! 🖍️

10/22/2026

Coming soon: MATRIX 290 / Keka Enriquez: "History Painting" 🎨✨

Opening December 2, this exhibition marks the first solo museum presentation in the United States of Filipino American artist Keka Enriquez, whose bold, expressive paintings explore the stories and people often left out of traditional accounts of American history.

After nearly twenty years away from painting, Enriquez returned to the canvas in 2023, developing a vibrant practice defined by energetic brushwork, vivid colors, and densely layered compositions. For this exhibition, she has created eight new paintings—the largest and most ambitious works of her career—drawing on histories ranging from Black cowboys and Mexican vaqueros on the Western frontier to the first Filipino settlement in St. Malo, Louisiana.

Reworking the conventions of American history painting, Enriquez blends abstraction and recognizable imagery to challenge whose stories are centered and how history is told. The 290th installment of BAMPFA’s long-running MATRIX series, "History Painting" will be on view December 2, 2026–April 25, 2027.

In collaboration with the Headlands Center for the Arts as part of Further Triennial. Learn more at bampfa.org or the link in bio.

📸: Luke Atwood Abiol

10/21/2026

Sat / Oct 31 / 6:30 PM: KWAIDAN

Masaki Kobayashi’s visually stunning ghost-story anthology brings four supernatural tales to life through hand-painted sets, luminous colors, and an eerie electronic score by avant-garde composer Toru Takemitsu.

Adapted from stories by Lafcadio Hearn, this Japanese horror masterpiece follows mortals caught in the grip of forces beyond their understanding. Experience the original three-hour Director’s Cut in a breathtaking 4K digital restoration—perfect for a Halloween night at the movies. 🕯️🎬

KWAIDAN screens again Saturday, November 7 at 2:30 PM.

🎟️ Get tickets at bampfa.org/film or the link in bio.

10/20/2026

Thu / Oct 29 / 7PM: Celluloid Frontiers: A MISSING CAN OF FILM and STOP GENOCIDE. 🎬✨

In conjunction with the BAMPFA exhibition "Private Frontiers: Media Legacies of the Cold War," join us for Naeem Mohaiemen’s A MISSING CAN OF FILM (2025), a film exploring the contested histories surrounding Zahir Raihan’s STOP GENOCIDE (1971), created during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Combining scenes from Raihan’s film with footage shot at the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation following the 2024 July Student “Monsoon” Uprising, Mohaiemen examines the film canister as a vessel of political memory, lost histories, and struggles over how the past is preserved and understood.

Following the screening, Mohaiemen joins BAMPFA Assistant Curator Tausif Noor for a conversation.

Co-sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Institute for South Asia Studies, Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, and South Asia Art Initiative.

🎟️ Get tickets and learn more at bampfa.org or the link in bio.

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