by MerciSF | 31-08-2026 | Agenda, Movie, News, See All Alice DiopBAMPFABerkeleyFrench cinemaSaint OmerUC Berkeley
Alice Diop, one of the leading voices in contemporary French cinema, whom Le Monde called “the new face of French cinema” in 2022, will be at UC Berkeley starting September 3 for a series of film screenings and events organized in part with the Department of French.... 
by MerciSF | 26-05-2026 | Agenda, Movie, News, See All BAMPFABay Area cultureBerkeleyFilm noirFrançois TruffautFrench cinemaFrench New WaveJean-Pierre Melville
For nearly three months and through 12 iconic films, BAMPFA celebrates the golden age of French film noir with French Noir: From the Shadows into the Light, a major retrospective dedicated to the masterpieces of French crime cinema and noir. From June 4 to August 28,... 
by MerciSF | 17-11-2021 | Agenda, Movie, See All BAMPFAEast BayFrench Cinema BerkeleyFrench movies with subtitles
The celebrated French author and filmmaker Marguerite Duras is the focus of a trio of movies, including the Bay Area premiere of Suzanna Andler, featuring Charlotte Gainsbourg. Also featured are Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima Mon Amour and a new restoration of Le Navire... 
by MerciSF | 7-01-2020 | Agenda, Movie, See All Agnes VardaBAMPFANouvelle VagueRetrospectiveSFMOMA
CLOSED – Emblematic figure of the French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) cinema, Agnes Varda deserved a well-rounded retrospective. It’s happening from January 9th to March 21st 2020 at SFMOMA and from January 9th to Feb 28th at BAMPFA (Berkeley Art Museum and... 
by Anne Marie | 29-10-2019 | Movie, See All BAMPFABerkeleyFrench movies with subtitlesJacques Tati
BAMPFA spoils us one more time with a series of Jacques Tati movies that we will be able to enjoy week after week, from Nov 2nd through November 30th, 2019. Born Jacques Tatischeff, Tati (1907–1982) got his start in the 1930s music hall with humorous sketches miming... 
by Anne Marie | 28-09-2019 | Museum - Art, Visit BAMPFABerkeleyKader Attia
Presented at BAMPFA (Berkeley Art Museum) from September 18 to November 17, 2019 – MATRIX 274 is Kader Attia’s first solo exhibition in California. For over a decade, the French-Algerian artist Kader Attia has been deeply invested in researching and documenting...
