Filmmaker Sam Green will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A at all three screenings! KQED’s Alexis Madrigal moderates following the Sun, 9/20, 12:30pm […]

EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY KRISTEN STEWART WINNER, TEDDY AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY, 2026 BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL   Director Brydie O’Connor IN PERSON for Q&A on Friday, […]

Director Rafael Manuel in person for introduction and Q&A moderated by Ali El-Sadany, editor of FilmSlop, on Saturday, September 5 (at rush). Presented by FiliKula […]

The Friday, September 18 screening is now at RUSH. “My codename is Project 2501, and I am a life form that was born in […]

If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated best-selling poet, Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the […]

Co-presented by Frameline. At the age of eight, Kansas youngsters Neil and Brian played on the same little league baseball team. Now, ten years […]

Visionary director Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) presents a new kind of horror remake in TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. […]

Co-presented by the Arab Film & Media Institute (AFMI) and the Jewish Film Institute From Oscar®-nominated and Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker Poh Si Teng, American Doctor follows three American […]

Co-presented by Frameline Video introduction by director Angie Chen In My Name Ain’t Suzie, Angie Chen offers a powerful rebuke to the colonial imagination […]

The long-awaited 4K restoration of René Laloux’s final masterpiece reveals one of animation’s most astonishing science-fiction visions. An entire civilization must confront its destiny […]

Co-presented by CAFILM Introduced by Kelly Wiggin While his name lacks the recognition of other Eastern European filmmakers, writer / director / occasional actor […]

Co-presented by Frameline Dakan follows two young men, Manga and Sori, as they navigate young love of a kind their families cannot abide. Seen […]

Composer Dan Wool, Animator Tom “Gibby” Gibbons, and VFX Supervisor Ken Rogerson IN PERSON for the Sunday, Sept 27 show! For his directorial swan […]

An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection. About Floating Features […]

Director Rafael Manuel in person for introduction and Q&A moderated by Ali El-Sadany, editor of FilmSlop, on Saturday, September 5 (at rush). Presented by FiliKula […]

Co-presented by National Film Preservation Foundation Written and directed by Robert Wynne-Simmons (writer of folk-horror masterpiece Blood on Satan’s Claw), and starring legendary Irish […]

This screening will open with Len Lye’s animated short film SWINGING THE LAMBETH WALK. The film was restored by San Francisco Film Preserve and scanned […]

Director Kenji Yamamoto and Producer Nancy Kelly in person for Q&A after the screening! Three immigrant entrepreneurs arrive in the U.S. to make their […]

Co-presented by SF IndieFest and Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive Margot Benacerraf’s extraordinary Araya, from the moment of its premiere at the […]

Co-presented by the Japan Society of Northern California “Kurosawa has made one of his best films, a work that feels a bit like Agatha Christie, […]

Co-presented by SF IndieFest and the Sudanese Association for Northern California In The Dislocation of Amber, director Hussein Shariffe uses abandoned areas of the […]

Sumitra Peries’s Gehenu Lamai [The Girls] —the first feature directed by a woman in Sri Lanka—is a close observation of a life shrinking. So […]

Composer Dan Wool, Animator Tom “Gibby” Gibbons, and VFX Supervisor Ken Rogerson IN PERSON for the Sunday, Sept 27 show! For his directorial swan […]

Visionary director Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) presents a new kind of horror remake in TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. […]

Co-presented by RoxCine Introduced by Peter Conheim This screening will open with Len Lye’s animated short film THE BIRTH OF THE ROBOT. The film was […]

Co-presented by CAFILM A landmark from the golden age of New Yugoslav Film (1963-1973), a compelling and under appreciated (at least in America) chapter […]

Co-presented by BAVC Media, Canyon Cinema, and San Francisco Cinematheque Introduced by director Karen Sperling Filmmaker Karen Sperling writes, directs, produces, and stars in […]

Composer Dan Wool, Animator Tom “Gibby” Gibbons, and VFX Supervisor Ken Rogerson IN PERSON for the Sunday, Sept 27 show! For his directorial swan […]

Co-presented by National Film Preservation Foundation and Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum Live musical accompaniment by the Club Foot Quintet. Lewis Milestone’s extensive career […]

Director Rafael Manuel in person for introduction and Q&A moderated by Ali El-Sadany, editor of FilmSlop, on Saturday, September 5 (at rush). Presented by FiliKula […]

Co-presented by National Film Preservation Foundation and CAFILM Introduced by David Stenn At an all-girls school in Switzerland, Christa Storm (Dorothy Wilson) is a […]

Co-presented by Film Noir Foundation This screening will open with Len Lye’s animated short film KALEIDOSCOPE. The film was restored by San Francisco Film Preserve […]