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Saturday, September 30, 1 PM screening is co-presented by Bay Area Chinese Culture Salon In celebration of its 30th anniversary, a new 4K restoration […]

Barbara, a woman who has lived in Barcelona for 12 years, receives the news that her eldest son -whom she has not seen since […]

From 1992 to 2013, Argentine artist Martín Weber asked people throughout Latin America to write their dreams on a wooden chalkboard. Decades later, Martin […]

Filmmaker Mercedes Gaviria in person! In the cult classic The Rose Seller (1998), Colombian filmmaker-poet Victor Gaviria poignantly updates Hans Christian Andersen to the […]

Part of A Gaviria Double: The Calm after the Storm w/Q&A + The Rose Seller Director Mercedes Gaviria IN PERSON for a post-screening conversation […]

Join us for a memorable post-screening discussion! On Friday, 9/22, after the 6:30 PM screening, with 1000 Mile Club Coach, Diana Fitzpatrick and film […]

Part of A Gaviria Double: The Calm after the Storm w/Q&A + The Rose Seller 25th Anniversary screening. Introduced by Mercedes Gaviria. Directed by […]

Shohoku’s “speedster” and point guard, Ryota Miyagi, always plays with brains and lightning speed, running circles around his opponents while feigning composure. Born and […]

San Francisco Leather Week is the world’s first cultural festival focused on the art, history, and culture of the worldwide Leather and LGBTQ+ communities. […]

Saturday, September 30, 1 PM screening is co-presented by Bay Area Chinese Culture Salon In celebration of its 30th anniversary, a new 4K restoration […]

Director Raven Jackson and producer Barry Jenkins are expected to attend for a post-screening Q&A A lyrical, decades-spanning exploration across a woman’s life in […]

Saturday, September 30, 1 PM screening is co-presented by Bay Area Chinese Culture Salon In celebration of its 30th anniversary, a new 4K restoration […]

This special event celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Versailles, with fashion icons Pat Cleveland and Stephen Burrows in conversation with Carolyn […]

Part of Gialloween V! Purchase a series pass here – see all four films for $44! Arguably no other giallo captured the glamourous jetsetter […]

“Wild and entertaining” – The Daily Beast “Bernal’s performance is a knockout” -The Hollywood Reporter “A Loving tribute to Lucha Libre and a queer […]

“There are cool directors, and then there are directors as cool as Soda Jerk, whose films are almost like forbidden fruits.” – Luke Buckmaster, […]

Part of Gialloween V! Purchase a series pass here – see all four films for $44! In the most criminally underseen giallo of the […]

One of the greatest of all films produced by Japan’s legendary Studio Ghibli, Isao Takahata’s heartbreaking tale follows a teenage boy left to care […]

Part of Jia Zhangke: A Journey Through Time Still Life, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2006, is an […]

World Theatrical Premiere! Following the Saturday, Sept 30th show: Director Judy Irving IN PERSON for a Q&A with Lisa Serebin, Earl Blacksher, Ned Viall, […]

Co-presented by Canyon Cinema. With live sound by Kevin Barnard. I have been living in North Beach for 45 years and I am an […]

Part of Jia Zhangke: A Journey Through Time A masterful new documentary from Jia Zhangke – “Not only is the 38-year-old director the most […]

Part of Jia Zhangke: A Journey Through Time A “brilliant exploration of violence and corruption in contemporary China” (Jon Frosch, The Atlantic), A TOUCH […]

Part of Jia Zhangke: A Journey Through Time Still Life, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2006, is an […]

Part of Jia Zhangke: A Journey Through Time One of cinema’s great debuts, this film by the generation-defining Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke is a […]

This vibrant documentary celebrates Guillermo Gómez-Peña and the contribution his radical, queer, anti-colonial art has made to conversations around border-thinking, gender politics and Latinx […]

Producer Joshua Davis IN PERSON! A sixth-grade teacher in a Mexican border town upends convention so that his students might realize their potential in […]

Part of Gialloween V! Purchase a series pass here – see all four films for $44! Written by the prolific Ernesto Gastaldi (Torso), infused […]

Director Bill Plympton IN PERSON! In the idyllic logging town of Sourdough Creek, the shotgun-toting, opportunistic mayor and his slimy brother attempt to lure […]

Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman plus Co-creator, Editor Susan Fanshel IN PERSON! The latest from Oscar®-winning Bay Area documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman […]

Marlo McKenzie & Jonathan Parker IN PERSON! Dancer Carol Doda is a San Francisco legend, a game changer, a lightning rod, and a woman […]

Unbecoming Attractions RETURNS with an all-new, all-spooky, all 35mm edition just in time for Hallowe’en. Come trick or treat with us through neighborhoods that […]

Part of Gialloween V! Purchase a series pass here – see all four films for $44! At the height of the Italian giallo boom […]

Stay at Conder Beach Director: Aaron Khandros In this narrative fiction mystery, Conder Beach is a crumbling tourist town on the Gulf Coast, reliant […]

Back for its sixth edition, SpookFest is the film festival that goes bump in the night! We’ve scavenged the crypts, summoned the demons, and […]

Playing as part of Floating Features on Red and White Fleet’s hybrid electric vessel Enhydra. FBI chemical warfare expert Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage) is […]

4K Restoration of the Uncensored Director’s Cut Gregg Araki & James Duval IN PERSON! “Sexy, psychedelic, dementedly funny… it’s like ‘Clueless’ with nipple rings” […]

Call Me Mule Director:John McDonald John Sears, who refers to himself as Mule, has been roaming the western United States with his three mules […]

The film follows two women who grew up rin the emote atoll of Pukapuka in the Cook Islands and return home after decades away […]

Down River Jordan Director:Addie Navarro Runtime:60 minutes Synopsis: The Jordan River has played a major role in shaping human society as we know it, providing […]

Set in the dystopian future of *checks calendar* 2022, the planet has had its share of cascading economic, social, and environmental catastrophes. The Soylent […]

Playing as part of Floating Features on Red and White Fleet’s hybrid electric vessel Enhydra. FBI chemical warfare expert Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage) is […]

The Freeway Greenway Director: David Waldorf Runtime: 7 minutes In the Portola District of San Francisco, a group of dedicated local folks transformed the area […]

The image of the heroic cowboy riding through the wide-open country dominates movies to this day. In COWBOY POETS, we learn about a lesser-known […]

Lagunaria Director: Giovanni Pellegrini Runtime: 85 minutes A voice from a distant future tells of a vanished city that was once among the most famous […]

A Thousand Pines Director:Sebastian Diaz, Noam Osband Runtime:73 minutes Raymundo Morales runs a crew of 12 Oaxacan tree planters traveling the United States in this […]

Between the Rains Director: Andrew Harrison Brown, Moses Thuranira Runtime: 82 minutes Between the Rains is a coming-of-age story of Kolei, a shepherd boy whose […]

We Are Tenacious Director: Giuliana Salomone Runtime: 75 minutes Penny Logue is a transgender Alpaca rancher. A modern pioneer. An Anarchist. A hero in the […]

Out There: A National Parks Story Director: Brendan Hall Runtime: 73 minutes A young filmmaker sets out on a 10,000-mile exploration of the national parks […]

Co-Presented by Amoeba Music! Directed by Ian White, MUTINY IN HEAVEN is the story of The Birthday Party’s ascent, apex and inevitable collapse is […]

Co-presented by the Berkeley Film Foundation, Doclands, and The Film Collaborative  Can a new economic theory revolutionize our ability to tackle the climate crisis? […]

Playing as part of Floating Features on Red and White Fleet’s hybrid electric vessel Enhydra. Just after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie (Mike Myers) […]

Playing as part of Floating Features on Red and White Fleet’s hybrid electric vessel Enhydra. Just after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie (Mike Myers) […]

Join us for a memorable post-screening discussion with Jim LeBrecht (Executive Producer), Alexis (Co-Director and Producer), and Diana Diroy (Editor.) Moderated by Rosemary McDonnell-Horita! […]

Following the screenings on Friday, 10/27 and Saturday, 10/28, join award-winning filmmakers Josh and Rebecca Harnell Tickell to learn more about the film and […]

Playing as part of Floating Features on Red and White Fleet’s hybrid electric vessel Enhydra. Meek flower shop assistant Seymour (Rick Moranis) pines for […]

Following the screenings on Friday, 10/27 and Saturday, 10/28, join award-winning filmmakers Josh and Rebecca Harnell Tickell to learn more about the film and […]

Playing as part of Floating Features on Red and White Fleet’s hybrid electric vessel Enhydra. Meek flower shop assistant Seymour (Rick Moranis) pines for […]

“Like an episode of the office But with huge drum kits… utterly enthralling. Somehow it ends being about a lot more than King Crimson.” […]

In 1967, the documentary “Rush to Judgment” presented for the first time a simple, concise legal argument that the Warren Commission was hiding something, […]