Harakiri

Fri · Nov 6·7 PM – 9:15 PM·BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704

Harakiri (BAMPFA) — Tatsuya Nakadai plays a penniless samurai seeking permission for ritual suicide, with additional killings, hailed as possibly the best samurai film.

Fri · Nov 20·Los Angeles, CA · Berkeley

Cal Berkeley men’s water polo competes in the MPSF Championship at a neutral Los Angeles venue.

Fri · Nov 20·Athens, Ga. · Berkeley

Cal Berkeley women's tennis faces opponents at the neutral NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships in Athens, Georgia.

Fri · Nov 20·10:30 AM – 11 AM·West Branch · Berkeley

Storytime in Spanish and English with songs, movement, clapping, and reading at Berkeley Public Library West Branch, for ages 6–30 months.

Fri · Nov 20·11 AM – 12 PM·UC Botanical Garden Berkeley

Integral Taiji & Qigong class at UC Botanical Garden Berkeley offers standing and walking meditation, Microcosmic Orbit, Taiji Ruler, Eight Treasures, and element embodiment, all ages.

Wed · Oct 28·12:15 PM·BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704

Exhibition tour of Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA collection at BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley.

Wed · Oct 28·7 PM – 9 PM·BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704

Our Sister Hedy (BAMPFA) — Four grown sisters navigate tangled marriage plots in a charming dramedy, with director Doe Ching’s perfectly cast performances.

Thu · Oct 29·7 PM·BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704

BAMPFA screens Naeem Mohaiemen’s A Missing Can of Film (2025) and Zahir Raihan’s Stop Genocide (1971), a Soviet‑Realist style documentary of the Bangladesh Liberation War.