Calling all CalFalconCam fans! Annie and Archie's eggs are due to hatch any day now. Stop by BAMPFA on Wednesday, April 24, to watch the egg-hatching live and meet raptor experts.🐣news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/19/her…

'Black Box Diaries' is Shiori Ito's powerful personal taboo-breaking chronicle of her efforts to challenge the Japanese rape culture that protected her well-connected rapist from accountability. Catch this film at BAMPFA as part of SFFILM 67 w/ Ito in person.

A new exhibition at BAMPFA translates the story of the Great Migration, which has so many facets and truths shared by millions of Black people who moved out of the American South, into a walkable, visual experience.
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We are 2-weeks from our spectacular hatch day celebration BAMPFA and wanted to let you all know that we will be hosting a feathered guest from 11-2 thanks to the wonderful folks at Native Bird Connections. If you want to see a raptor up close and personal, make sure you stop by!

New exhibition opening at BAMPFA tomorrow: 'A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration.' Admission is *free* on opening day & every first Thursday bampfa.org/program/moveme… #sponsored

Now at (((BrokeAssStuart))): April film festivals previews featuring SF Silent Film Fest and SFFILM. The latter includes new films from Kazuhiro Soda (on feral cats), Dawn Porter (on Luther Vandross), and Seeking Mavis Beacon. tinyurl.com/3nubpf8a BAMPFA

The Great Migration travels beyond South to North in BAMPFA'S ‘Movement in Every Direction’—expanding how we think about one of the biggest mass movements in US history.

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The Cannes news made me want to post this bit from a Cahiers interview with Tom Luddy I'm in the middle of translating - according to Luddy, George Lucas arranged for the proceeds from the SF premiere of Star Wars to go to BAMPFA

🐣 Hatch Day is coming to the big screen on Wednesday, April 24!

Annie and Archie should be welcoming new chicks into their family that day—and we'll be streaming the whole thing on @bampfa's outdoor screen, 9 AM-7 PM.

Go to: bampfa.org/hatch-day for more information!

The 'On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous' novelist and poet Ocean Vuong comes to the BAMPFA on Thursday and Friday for a conversation and reading, respectively. Both events are free and open to the general public, first come, first served.
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Agnès Varda's New Wave classic CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 proves Varda's favorite theme: “One isn’t born a woman, one becomes one'. This iconic chronicle of two hours of a pop singer’s life as she waits to learn if she has cancer screens tonight @ 7 PM.

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The time has come to excitedly pore over the just-announced program for the 67th San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM), taking place April 24–28 at six San Francisco venues and its traditional East Bay outpost, the BAMPFA. (✍️: Sarah Hotchkiss)
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Today @ 7 PM: A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION. In Edward Yang’s satire of Taiwan’s mid-1990s economic boom, a group of young Taiwanese professionals chase cash value over Confusion values (unless those too can be monetized). Screening in a new digital restoration.

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Film critic David Thompson’s “In Focus” series, examining the portrayal of WWI in film, concludes @ 3:10 PM with a multi-Academy Award winning blockbuster. In 1917, British soldiers rush behind enemy lines to deliver a message that can save thousands.

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Today's newsletter marks the 5-month anniversary of Screen Slate SF Bay's launch—an odd one to mark, yes, but we're almost at 1000 subscribers, and that would be a lovely milestone for our 6-month anniversary, in four weeks, so tell your friends to subscribe! screenslate.com/newsletter

Here's our weekly round-up, with screenings by Roxie Theater, California Film Institute (CAFILM), Orinda Theatre, Alamo San Francisco, The New Parkway, Unnamed Footage Festival, Balboa Theater, 4 Star Theater, Vogue Theater, Shapeshifters Cinema, BAMPFA, San Francisco Cinematheque, ATA Connect, Essanay, MidCentury Prod

Ousmane Sembène’s EMITAÏ is a tale of the Diola tribe, who guard their traditions and resist the French colonialists. This story about the awakening of national consciousness, set in the closing days of WWII, screens tomorrow @ 4 PM in a 4K restoration.

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Tomorrow @ 2 PM: Agnès Varda’s radical debut film, LA POINTE COURTE. Often seen as the forerunner of French New Wave, the film follows two reunited lovers in a Mediterranean fishing port.

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Tomorrow @ 4 PM: Catch the Bay Area Premiere of VIVA VARDA! Full of rare archival footage and exclusive interviews, the documentary kicks off our new film series celebrating the life, career, and legacy of the vibrant filmmaker, Agnès Varda.

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Mexico’s official Oscar 2021 submission, PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN, screens tonight @ 7 PM with director Tatiana Huezo in person! In this sensitive film, three girls come of age in a remote highland village, in the shadow of cartel violence.

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