BAMPFA – Mill Valley Film Festival

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THE YOUNG VOTE

TRAILBLAZERS | ACTIVE CINEMA | MIND THE GAP | DOCS US 2022, 67 min, Director: Diane Robinson As the United States teeters toward theocracy, it is painfully clear that the stakes in the upcoming midterm elections are nothing short of the life,…

TURN EVERY PAGE – THE ADVENTURES OF ROBERT CARO AND ROBERT GOTTLIEB

United States CREATE BAMPFA, Rafael 3 Oct 16, Oct 7 DOCS Mind the Gap Film

CREATE | MIND THE GAP | DOCS US 2022, 112 min, Director: Lizzie Gottlieb Fifty years, five books, four thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight pages…and counting. Lizzie Gottlieb’s gripping documentary focuses on the intersecting life's…

SHORTS: LUNAFEST

mvff 2022 United States BAMPFA, Virtual Oct 13, Oct 6 SHORTS Mind the Gap Film

MIND THE GAP Total program 80 minutes Eight short films that empower and inspire. How to Be at Home (Andrea Dorfman, 5 min): An animated poem reflects on coping with isolation during the pandemic. Close Ties to Home Country (Akanksha…

SANTOS—SKIN TO SKIN

mvff 2022 United States TRAILBLAZERS BAMPFA, Roxie Theater, Sequoia 2, Virtual Oct 14, Oct 16, Oct 6, Oct 8 DOCS Mind the Gap, Viva el Cine Film

TRAILBLAZERS | MIND THE GAP | ¡VIVA EL CINE! | DOCS US 2022, 75 min, Director: Kathryn Golden Bay Area music legend and activist John Santos takes center stage in this documentary thrumming with rhythm, passion, and cultural reflection. Known…

THE PUPILS (LE PUPILLE)

mvff 2022 Italy LAUGH BAMPFA, Lark Theater, Rafael 3, Sequoia 1 Oct 12, Oct 15, Oct 8, Oct 9 SHORTS Film

LAUGH | MIND THE GAP | SHORTS Italy 2022, 37 min, Director: Alice Rohrwacher From the very first frames of Alice Rohrwacher’s The Pupils, “a film clumsily and freely based on a letter the writer Elsa Morante sent to her friend Goffredo…

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Japan SPIRIT BAMPFA, Rafael 2 Oct 14, Oct 15 WORLD CINEMA Film

SPIRIT | WORLD Japan 2022, 112 min, Director: Chie Hayakawa Chie Hayakawa’s feature debut, which premiered at Cannes, puts our ageist society under a microscope. This dystopian drama may provoke comparisons to 1970s-era classics Logan’s…

ONE FINE MORNING (UN BEAU MATIN)

mvff 2022 France BAMPFA, Rafael 3 Oct 8, Oct 9 WORLD CINEMA Mind the Gap Film

MIND THE GAP | WORLD France 2022, 112 min, Director: Mia Hansen-Løve Even more moving for eschewing excess drama, writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve’s subtle film is a bittersweet exploration of how the vicissitudes of fate and the passage…

FANTASTIC NEGRITO: HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND YET?

mvff 2022 United States TRAILBLAZERS BAMPFA, Lark Theater, Virtual Oct 15, Oct 16, Oct 6 DOCS Film

TRAILBLAZERS | DOCS US 2022, 93 min, Director: Yvan Iturriaga, Francisco Núñez Capriles This locally made doc packs a lot of life into 90 minutes — specifically, the super-sized life of Xavier Dephrepaulezz, better known as Grammy-winning…

DECISION TO LEAVE

South Korea BAMPFA, Rafael 2 Oct 15, Oct 9 WORLD CINEMA Film

WORLD South Korea 2022, 138 min, Director: Park Chan-wook South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook continues his transformation from ace provocateur to mature master with this elegant Hitchcockian thriller about obsession and the mysteries of the…

CHARCOAL (CARVÃO)

Brazil BAMPFA, Roxie Theater, Sequoia 1 Oct 15, Oct 7, Oct 8 WORLD CINEMA Mind the Gap, Viva el Cine Film

MIND THE GAP | ¡VIVA EL CINE! | WORLD Brazil, Argentina 2022, 107 min, Director: Carolina Markowicz Writer-director Carolina Markowicz’s evocative feature debut is the kind of film that makes you love cinema more than ever. Irene (Maeve…