Filmmakers take on torture and other atrocities in this thought-provoking program, presented in conjunction with the BAM exhibition <b>Fernando Botero: The Abu Ghraib Series.</b>

The avant-garde in your backyard: PFA’s Tuesday evening showcase brings new works by Ute Aurand, Harun Farocki, and others to Berkeley.

A chance to discover rare works by a beloved actress, this series looks beyond Bergman’s Hollywood fame to consider her work across the Atlantic, from her early years in Sweden to her work with Roberto Rossellini and that other Bergman, Ingmar.

Exploring the structures of time and memory, Resnais created a cinema of ideas that transformed the idea of cinema. This series revisits the unforgettable work of a true modernist master, including the groundbreaking <i>Night and Fog</i> and <i>Last Year at Marienbad</i>.

This journey into the world of Yiddish cinema showcases spectacular film performances and celebrates the varieties of Eastern European Jewish culture with an abundance of music, humor, irony, and self-awareness.

“Otto Preminger must hold some sort of record for one of the longest stretches of provocative and intelligent mainstream filmmaking in American cinema” (<i>Village Voice</i>). We survey the director’s work from noir classics like <i>Laura</i> through the feisty indies of the fifties and sixties.

Visual ballet meets political analysis in the films of this Hungarian artist. “An essential director whose work cannot be seen, should not be seen, anywhere other than on the big screen” (Cinematheque Ontario).