Returning to Los Angeles, where she had lived and worked in the late 1960s, Agnès Varda became fascinated by the colorful murals that adorned—and […]

ASCO: Without Permission challenges the limits of documentary conventions to tell the story of a revolutionary Chicano art group who turned 1970s LA into […]

Selected by Christian Marclay Brian DePalma’s adaptation of Stephen King’s first novel about an isolated high school girl, her religious mother, and the cruelty […]

A crew of professional shoplifters takes aim at a cutthroat fashion maven. It’s like community service. “Not content with making a modest comedy about […]

Filmmaker Ivy Meeropol IN PERSON, in conversation with Chronicle Senior Political Writer, Joe Garofoli after the June 27 show! “Ivy Meeropol’s documentary tells the […]

Director Mark Jenkin in person, in conversation with SFFilm Associate Director of Programming, Mr. Rod Armstrong, for the 6/16 preview screening! Three decades ago, […]

Selected by Nan Goldin Petty crook Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) has his eyes fixed on the big score. When the cocky three-time convict picks […]

Selected by Carrie Mae Weems Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning Best Original Screenplay is about a young New Yorker, Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya), who accompanies his […]

São Paulo, 1983: Women’s soccer has just been legalized in Brazil. A group of rebellious young women form the Gayvotas Football Club and begin […]

Summer 2004 on the glistening Galician coast: 18-year-old Marina, a confident, budding filmmaker raised by adoptive parents seeks out her estranged paternal grandparents to […]

Selected by Robert Adams Liv Ullmann plays a stage actor who has inexplicably gone mute; an equally mesmerizing Bibi Andersson is the garrulous young […]

Selected by Martine Gutierrez Clashing with an archdemon boar, warrior Ashitaka is stricken with an empowering yet ultimately fatal curse and, journeying into the […]

Armed with a 16mm camera and a grant to make a documentary about the lingering aftermath of William Tecumseh Sherman’s 1864 march to the […]

Armed with a 16mm camera and a grant to make a documentary about the lingering aftermath of William Tecumseh Sherman’s 1864 march to the […]

Selected by Elisheva Biernoff A farm boy, a princess, a six-fingered man, and the most charming revenge plot ever told—The Princess Bride is a […]

In celebration of their collaborative exhibition “A Slice of the Pie” featuring work from fourteen Bay Area galleries, Fraenkel Gallery presents this one-night-only special […]

A crew of professional shoplifters takes aim at a cutthroat fashion maven. It’s like community service. “Not content with making a modest comedy about […]

Selected by Lee Friedlander Capping a stunning run of 1950s late-career films—falling between Vertigo and Psycho, both summits of cinema in their own right—Alfred […]

Summer 2004 on the glistening Galician coast: 18-year-old Marina, a confident, budding filmmaker raised by adoptive parents seeks out her estranged paternal grandparents to […]

São Paulo, 1983: Women’s soccer has just been legalized in Brazil. A group of rebellious young women form the Gayvotas Football Club and begin […]

Filmmaker Lilian Mehrel IN PERSON, in conversation with Kima Kalbasi! Persian-Kurdish Lela and her American daughter June take a trip to the romantic Azores […]

Presented by STArt Featuring a special pre-recorded video message from Director Huo Meng! With both parents working far away, ten-year-old Chuang is being raised by […]

Co-Presented by BAVC “Bethman’s film succeeds as both an inspiring coming-of-age story and impactful history lesson.” — Joe Leydon, Variety A coming-of-age documentary told from […]

Armed with a 16mm camera and a grant to make a documentary about the lingering aftermath of William Tecumseh Sherman’s 1864 march to the […]

Summer 2004 on the glistening Galician coast: 18-year-old Marina, a confident, budding filmmaker raised by adoptive parents seeks out her estranged paternal grandparents to […]

Director Mark Jenkin in person, in conversation with SFFilm Associate Director of Programming, Mr. Rod Armstrong, for the 6/16 preview screening! Three decades ago, […]

This July 4 weekend, trade patriotic mythmaking for one of cinema’s greatest portraits of ambition and illusion. A sublimely blank Ryan O’Neal is an […]

Includes 16 minutes of new, theatrically exclusive post-credit bonus footage from Kane Parsons! A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom, leading […]

Selected by Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller Jane Fonda is Bree Daniels, a sex worker who becomes an essential and unwilling participant in […]

Summer 2004 on the glistening Galician coast: 18-year-old Marina, a confident, budding filmmaker raised by adoptive parents seeks out her estranged paternal grandparents to […]

Selected by Richard Learoyd Two unemployed actors—acerbic, elegantly wasted Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and the anxiety-ridden “I” (Paul McGann)—drown their frustrations in booze, pills, […]

A crew of professional shoplifters takes aim at a cutthroat fashion maven. It’s like community service. “Not content with making a modest comedy about […]