Coming up June 28: Swap Circle at BAMPFA: Clothing Swap 👚 Bring clean clothing or accessories to exchange, meet fellow swappers, and rethink consumption one garment at a time. Participation is free, RSVP is required, and registered participants get 50% off gallery admission that day. ✨

Coming up June 10: THE RULES OF THE GAME with film historian David Thomson. 🎬 Jean Renoir’s 1939 classic screens as part of “French Noir: From the Shadows into the Light”, followed by a discussion with Thomson. Tickets and details at the link in bio. ✨

Tomorrow, Saturday, June 6, BAMPFA will open late at 1 PM. 🕐 The galleries, store, and Fisher Family Art Lab will be open from 1 to 7 PM. Please plan your weekend visit accordingly. Link in bio. ✨

Summer films start this week at BAMPFA. 🎬 French Noir opens June 4 with BOB LE FLAMBEUR, followed by ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS and BREATHLESS this weekend. Also coming up: Sergei Loznitsa’s TWO PROSECUTORS on June 5. Link in bio. 🕶️

BAMPFA is hiring! ✨ Curatorial Fellow, Chinese Cinema Join our team and help shape film programming and connect audiences with art, film, and cultural history. ➡️ bampfa.org/careers

This Thursday is Free First Thursday at BAMPFA. ✨ Gallery admission is free all day on June 4, and the Fisher Family Art Lab is open from 11 AM to 7 PM for drop-in art making. Plan your visit at the link in bio. 🎨

Summer at BAMPFA is here. ✨ Coming up: “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing”, French Noir, “Summer with Monica Vitti”, “A Complete Stanley Kubrick”, Frameline50 at BAMPFA, and more art, film, and public programs all season long. Link in bio. 🎬

Coming soon: “Summer with Monica Vitti”. 🎬 Opening June 11, the series brings Vitti’s iconic performances and exuberant Italian comedies to the big screen, with recent restorations from Cinecittà and support from the Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco. Link in bio. ✨

Opening next weekend: “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing.” The exhibition opens June 6, and a Free Community Day on June 7, drop-in art-making, and a curator’s tour. Link in bio. 🌿 📸 Maren Hassinger, Tree Duet, 1977. Courtesy of Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC. Photo: Adam Avila

June 5 at 7 PM: TWO PROSECUTORS. 🎬 Sergei Loznitsa’s latest is a chilling, Kafka-esque thriller about power, fascism, and the Soviet purges of 1937. The June 5 screening will be introduced by UC Berkeley’s Polina Barskova. Link in bio. 🎟️

Coming to BAMPFA’s Art Wall this summer: Marcel Pardo Ariza: “Las Frutas del Labor”. ✨ The site-specific installation pays homage to art handlers and the essential labor behind museum exhibitions and collection care. Learn more at the link in bio. 🖼️

Now on view: Teaching Gallery / “The Politics of the Poster”. 📣 Curated by the BAMPFA Student Committee with museum curators, the exhibition explores the poster as a site of artistic expression and a tool for collective action. On view through August 23. Link in bio. ✨

Coming up June 6: Maren Hassinger Tributes and Wrenching News Workshop. ✨ Celebrate the opening of “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing” with tributes from major artists and scholars, followed by a workshop led by Hassinger herself. Tickets required. Link in bio. 🗞️

Just announced: Frameline50 at BAMPFA. 🎬 From June 19–26, BAMPFA hosts the Bay Area’s venerable LGBTQ+ film festival with GUGU’S WORLD, ACTING LIKE WOMEN, VIRGINA, and MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD, plus in-person guests and introductions. Link in bio. 🌈

We are delighted to receive a $250,00 grant from the Getty through the Black Visual Art Archives initiative. Grants increase access to archival collections across the U.S. that hold important historical records related to works created by Black artists.

On May 22: Black Life: Bloom as Miracle. ✨ Two performance artists—unknown to each other and to the audience until the day of the show—meet in an improvisational performance shaped by movement, healing, and collective blossoming. Included with admission. Link in bio. 🌱

Few movies have been discussed so much and seen so little as 'Hitler, A Film From Germany', the seven-hour 1977 magnum opus. The curious might not want to put off attending its one-off Sat/16 projection at @bampfa.bsky.social #ScreenGrabs

This Sunday at 11 AM: Highly Descriptive Vision Access Guided Tour of "Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection". ✨ Join BAMPFA Education staff for a tour of the exhibition intended for blind and low-vision visitors. Included with admission. Link in bio. 🖼️

Screen Slate has a new preview of OUR HITLER, screening at BAMPFA this Saturday, May 16, at 1:30 PM. 🎬 Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s 1977 film is one of the most ambitious works in the series. Read the preview and get tickets at bampfa.org/event/our-hitler or the link in bio. ✨

This Friday at 6 PM: MFA Artists’ Talk at BAMPFA. 🎤 The 2026 graduates of UC Berkeley’s MFA program discuss their work with curators Omar Farah and Tausif Noor on the occasion of the Fifty-Sixth Annual UC Berkeley MFA Exhibition. Tickets required. Link in bio. ✨

Planning a visit this month? ✨ From May 13 through May 24, BAMPFA galleries and store will close early at 5 PM. Please check our Hours & Admission page before your visit!. Link in bio. 🕐

Opening tomorrow: Fifty-Sixth Annual UC Berkeley MFA Exhibition. ✨ This year’s exhibition features work by graduating artists Zuhoor Al Sayegh, Eleni Maria Berg, Itzli OCIEL, Kristiana Chan 薧礼醑, Swaleha Masude, and Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán. On view May 13–July 26. Link in bio.

This week, @commuter4film.bsky.social on a very rare screening of Our Hitler a.k.a. Hitler: A Film From Germany, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's monumental, 7+ hour smorgasbord (including puppets), playing once and only once this Saturday at @bampfa.bsky.social

Tomorrow at 4:30 PM: ROBERT WILSON AND THE CIVIL WARS. 🎬 Howard Brookner’s documentary follows Robert Wilson’s astonishing attempt to create a twelve-hour historical opera for the 1984 Summer Olympics, with Philip Glass and David Byrne among the collaborators. Link in bio. ✨

This Saturday is Second Saturdays for Families at BAMPFA. 🎨 Join us May 9 for Gallery+Studio, drop-in artmaking in the Fisher Family Art Lab, and Roundtable Reading. Admission is free for kids 13 and under and for one accompanying adult per child. Link in bio. ✨

Tomorrow is Free First Thursday at BAMPFA! ✨ Gallery admission is free all day on May 7. It’s a great time to visit and see all our exhibits, including the newly opened “Collection Focus / Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS”! Plan your visit today using the link in bio. 🖼️

Opening May 6: “Collection Focus / Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS” ✨ The exhibition marks the California debut of Bennani’s acclaimed video trilogy, a mix of animation and live action set in a dystopian future shaped by migration and technology. Link in bio. 🎥

BAMPFA’s Summer Film Season is here! ☀️ Coming this summer: French Noir, Stanley Kubrick, Isao Takahata, and more! Tickets go on sale to members on May 6 at 11 AM, then to the public on May 8 at 11 AM. Browse the season at bampfa.org/film or the link in bio. 🍿

Today is the final day of SFFILM at BAMPFA! 🎬 Catch AMÍLCAR at 2 PM, THE ARCH at 4:30 PM, and THOSE WHO WHISTLE AFTER DARK at 7 PM. Get tickets today at bampfa.org/sffilm or the link in bio. 🌍

BAMPFA will be closed all day on Saturday, May 2, for our Art and Film Benefit. Galleries will reopen at 1 PM on Sunday, May 3. ✨

Final weekend ahead for SFFILM at BAMPFA. 🎬 The festival runs through May 3, with more international cinema, documentaries, and special guests still to come. Plan your weekend at bampfa.org/sffilm or the link in bio. ✨

Be sure to catch “Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection” The exhibition explores how artists reshape familiar objects and invites viewers to question what they think they’re seeing. More info at bampfa.org/program/object-oriented or the link in bio. 🖼️

Tomorrow at 7 PM: Persistence of Vision Award: Lynne Sachs + EVERY CONTACT LEAVES A TRACE 🎥 Part of SFFILM at BAMPFA, this special event honors filmmaker Lynne Sachs, followed by a conversation with Kathy Geritz. Get your tickets today at bampfa.org/sffilm or the link in bio. ✨

It's opening week of SFFILM at BAMPFA! 🎬 Catch premieres, international features, docs, and filmmakers in person all week. Browse the lineup and get your tickets today at bampfa.org/sffilm ✨

Heading to BAMPFA this weekend? ✨ Check out “Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection”, a show which brings together paintings, prints, sculpture, and more from the collection of Penny Cooper and Rena Rosenwasser. Get tickets today with the link in bio. 🖼️

On Wednesday, Lynn Sachs is in person at @bampfa.bsky.social to receive the Persistence of Vision Award and screen her latest work, Every Contact Leaves a Trace:

Mornings just got better ☕️ Kopi Bar expands hours starting Wed, May 6! Wed–Fri: 9 AM–4 PM Sat–Sun: 10 AM–5 PM (Food ends 30 min before closing) Delicious coffee, breakfast & fresh pastries—now earlier. Museum access begins at 11 AM.

Including HAIR, PAPER, WATER… [Tóc, Giấy và Nước…] by Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quý, with sound design by me and Trương Minh Quý. I’ll be there for a Q&A after the screenings; the one at BAMPFA is Saturday, April 25, 2026, at 2:15 p.m. #SFFILM sffilm.org/event/hair-p...

This week: SFFILM at BAMPFA. 🎬 From April 25–May 3, BAMPFA hosts a festival lineup filled with premieres, international cinema, documentaries, debut features, Bay Area voices, and special conversations. Get your tickets at the link in bio. 🌍

Tomorrow at 3:30 PM: ALL MY TREES at BAMPFA. 🌳 Part of "Iranian Cinema: From Aesthetics to Politics", this program pairs two documentaries about the environment and women-led social change, introduced by UC Berkeley prof Minoo Moallem. Tickets at the link in bio. 🎟️

Tomorrow is your last chance to see "Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings"! Join at 2 PM for an exhibition tour, included with gallery admission! 🎟️ bampfa.org

Tomorrow at 4 PM: AURORA’S SUNRISE. ✨ Inna Sahakyan’s award-winning documentary reconstructs the life of Aurora Mardiganian through animation, archival imagery, and rediscovered footage. Followed by a conversation with Dzovinar Derderian and Myrna Douzjian. Link in bio. 🎟️

This Saturday, April 18 at 1:30 PM: Lijin Lecture / Joan Kee: Afro Asia, or Art for a Global Majority. 📚 Joan Kee will speak from her award-winning book “The Geometries of Afro Asia”. Included with gallery admission. Get tickets in the link in bio. 🎟️

And here's our interview with Lucrecia Martel on the occasion of her residency this week at @bampfa.bsky.social (and brief visit to the Roxie on Thursday): www.screenslate.com/articles/sha...

Closing this week: “Lucrecia Martel: Un destino común.” 🎬 The series continues through April 19 with OUR LAND/NUESTRA TIERRA, CANUTO’S TRANSFORMATION, selected short films, and ZAMA still ahead. Link in bio. 🎟️

Tomorrow at 4 PM: DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST. 🌿 See Satyajit Ray’s 1970 masterpiece in a 4K digital restoration at BAMPFA. Tickets and details at the link in bio. 🎟️

Now in the final stretch: “Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings” and “Sentimental Education: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha at the Pacific Film Archive”✨ Through April 19, this is the perfect moment to experience Cha’s work! Plan your visit at the link in bio. 🎟️

Tomorrow at 7:30 PM: the BAMPFA Student Committee Film Festival! 🎬 Join us for a free showcase of short films by Bay Area student filmmakers, with the students themselves in person. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 6:30 PM. Link in bio. 🎟️

BAMPFA is hiring! We're looking for an Integrated Marketing Specialist to join our team! If you're a mission-driven marketing professional with a passion for the arts, this job is a perfect fit. ✨ ➡️ Learn more and apply at bampfa.org/careers or the link in bio!

Tomorrow at 7 PM, filmmaker Jessica Beshir joins us for FAYA DAYI, with a post-screening conversation with shah noor hussein. A hallucinatory black-and-white debut set in rural Ethiopia, where khat blurs the line between spiritual ritual and escape. 🎟️ bampfa.org/psychedelia