Harakiri

Fri · Nov 20·4 PM – 6:15 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 6·Indianapolis, IN · Berkeley

Cal Berkeley women's swimming & diving faces CSL championship competitors at a neutral site in Indianapolis.

Fri · Nov 6·Los Angeles, Calif. · Berkeley

Cal Berkeley women's tennis plays the ITA West Sectional Championships at a neutral Los Angeles site.

Fri · Nov 6·North Branch · Berkeley

Pet photo submissions create a Día de los Muertos ofrenda displayed at the North Branch Library, honoring pets who have crossed the Rainbow Bridge, ages 18 and up.

Fri · Nov 6·9:15 AM – 10 AM·La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA

Spanish‑language music and movement class with singing, dancing, and instrument play for children and caregivers at La Peña Cultural Center, for ages 6 and under.

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.