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February 4–April 22, 2026
BAMPFA’s annual Documentary Voices series returns in February with a selection of classic and contemporary nonfiction films from around the world. Continuing through April, the series begins with four programs that highlight compelling approaches to documenting different kinds of labor. Bay Area filmmaker Amy Reid presents her 2020 film Long Haulers, an exploration into the lives and labor of three women truck drivers, which plays with Katarina Jazbec’s investigation into the labor of lashers, who in the heavily automated environment of the port of Rotterdam, physically secure cargo. The great documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s 1980 film Model depicts the action around Zoli, a bustling New York modeling agency. A staple of fiction filmmaking since the birth of the medium, the skill and labor of contemporary cowboys and cowgirls is depicted in Gaucho Gaucho, which chronicles the everyday life of Argentine cowhands, and Ten Five in the Grass, which captures the preparations for a calf roping event on the Black rodeo circuit. The perilous work of journalism in a war zone has become even more deadly since the start of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi’s Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is a moving portrait of one of the hundreds of reporters killed there, photojournalist and poet Fatma Hassona.
—Kate MacKay, Film Curator