Film

Academy Award

Arts & culture

Berkeley Journalism faculty and alumni shortlisted for Academy Awards

Documentaries made by Professor Jason Springarn-Koff as well as several alumni garnered Oscar nods.

UC Berkeley professor of psychology looks at a still frame from the Pixar film 'Inside Out 2'

Film

UC Berkeley professor breaks down the science of ‘Inside Out 2’

A screenshot of a scene in Inkwo for When the Starving Return that shows a girl looking out on a field of beautiful purple flowers with an ominous-looking forest ahead.

Arts & culture

Stop-motion animator creates immersive worlds for Indigenous stories

A photo showing three screens playing three videos, with one displaying a piece of paper on fire and another showing a man standing amid smoke

Arts & culture

A new BAMPFA exhibit grapples with Syria’s civil war, inviting students to reflect

part of the cover for the documentary

Film changed the way people saw sexuality. Now, social media does.

Off-script at Berkeley: How one graduate made a home on campus apart from her twin

A green-toned photo of a close up of an owl staring at the camera outside.

New season of longtime avant-garde film series opens at BAMPFA

a black-and-white photo of people at Camp Jened, a summer camp for disabled people in the 1970s. A young man carries another young man while they laugh and as the shirtless director of the program looks on and campers in wheelchairs chat in the background.

Funky and free-spirited: How a 1970s summer camp started a disability revolution

a person wearing sunglasses looks into the distance

Former Pacific Film Archive director Tom Luddy dies at 79

Jon Shibata stands at BAMPFA's Richmond Field Station film vault with rows of colorful film cans on either side of him. He is looking straight at the camera.

Visit to the vault: UC Berkeley’s film collection is vast and rare

a person stands behind two dozen small metal sculptures on a table

Campuswide residency with South African artist William Kentridge announced

a girl stands on rocks in front of a volcano

Learning about Latinx culture, experiences through film

black and white tryptic of a woman with a bowl

Filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha on the beauty of receiving the world

portrait of a person outside with a camera

Professor and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha honored with Persistence of Vision Award

One of the militants who broke into the US Capitol gestures toward police officer

‘Day of Rage,’ film coproduced by Berkeley alumna, on Oscar shortlist

three people posing at a film screening

Berkeley Talks: Filmmaker Steve McQueen to Berkeley students: ‘Take a chance’