Jean-Luc Godard’s fragmentary portrait of a prostitute makes Anna Karina an object of endless visual fascination. It inspired Rainer Werner Fassbinder to cast Karina in Chinese Roulette. “A film of extraordinary purity” (Manny Farber).
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Video works explore Pacific nuclear history, colonialism, and climate change, featuring poet Kathy Jetn̄il‑Kijiner on Runit Dome, Michael Light’s Bravo/Echo series, a mammoth‑tooth journey, and wave‑projected Bikini Texts.
Bancroft Library corridor displays centuries‑spanning Philippine materials, including a 1646 Inquisitorial trial transcript, Cebuano prayer book, student publications, and Jessica Hagedorn’s drafts, drawings, and lyrics.
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.
Cal Berkeley women's tennis faces Dennis Rizza Collegiate Invitational at a neutral site in Palos Verdes, Calif.
Exhibition tour of Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA collection at BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley.
Our Sister Hedy (BAMPFA) — Four grown sisters navigate tangled marriage plots in a charming dramedy, with director Doe Ching’s perfectly cast performances.
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.
4K restoration of Maurice Pialat’s *La maison des bois* Episodes 4–7 screens at BAMPFA.
