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January 2025

Thursday, January 23, 2025

Two girls looking at holiday lights

Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the ‘colors’ of others. Colors of bliss, excitement, and serenity, plus a color […]

Thursday, January 23, 2025

6:20 pm

Werner Herzog films a model demonstrating brain stimulation, surrounded by a trio of brainiacs.

The screening on Friday, Jan 17 is At Rush! Q&A with Jack Gallant (Neuroscientist, UC Berkeley), Jamie Daves (co-founder Neurorights Foundation) & Jared Genser (Int’l human […]

Thursday, January 23, 2025

6:20 pm

Man at bar with multiple beers

“Guadagnino’s filmmaking has never been more vivid.” The San Francisco Chronicle, Michael Ordoña. “…you won’t regret getting swept up in the journey.” Slashfilm, Jeremy […]

Thursday, January 23, 2025

8:40 pm

2024 Sundance Film Festival Shorts

Considered the premier showcase for short films and the launchpad for many now-prominent independent filmmakers, the Festival includes fiction, documentary and animation from around […]

Thursday, January 23, 2025

8:40 pm

Rest in peace, David David Lynch once described his stunning debut feature simply as “a dream of dark and troubling things,” but the unclassifiable […]

Thursday, January 23, 2025

11:00 pm

Friday, January 24, 2025

Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on […]

Friday, January 24, 2025

6:15 pm

“Big-hearted… effortlessly riveting. Offers a vision of compassion as a way of life.” – The Hollywood Reporter Author and wildlife rehabber Terry Masear has […]

Friday, January 24, 2025

6:25 pm

Two girls looking at holiday lights

Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the ‘colors’ of others. Colors of bliss, excitement, and serenity, plus a color […]

Friday, January 24, 2025

8:40 pm

Critic’s Pick! “A rich, enveloping film that asks viewers to approach it as if tiptoeing through the snow.” – Ben Kenigsberg, The New York […]

Friday, January 24, 2025

8:40 pm

Saturday, January 25, 2025

Man sits among fallen buildings

“A profound cinematic event, proving that movies can be made even on the edge of destruction.” – Film Threat From Ground Zero is an […]

Saturday, January 25, 2025

12:30 pm

“‘DIG! XX’ Explodes and Rebuilds a Cult Rock Doc.” —ROLLING STONE “It rocks. The first movie rocked and this version rocks even harder.” —ROGEREBERT.COM […]

Saturday, January 25, 2025

3:00 pm

“Big-hearted… effortlessly riveting. Offers a vision of compassion as a way of life.” – The Hollywood Reporter Author and wildlife rehabber Terry Masear has […]

Saturday, January 25, 2025

3:40 pm

“For Kapadia, the courageousness of ‘All We Imagine As Light’ doesn’t feel like a second film. It already stands as an early majestic masterwork, […]

Saturday, January 25, 2025

5:50 pm

Two girls looking at holiday lights

Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the ‘colors’ of others. Colors of bliss, excitement, and serenity, plus a color […]

Saturday, January 25, 2025

6:10 pm

Critic’s Pick! “A rich, enveloping film that asks viewers to approach it as if tiptoeing through the snow.” – Ben Kenigsberg, The New York […]

Saturday, January 25, 2025

8:20 pm

Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on […]

Saturday, January 25, 2025

8:40 pm

Sunday, January 26, 2025

“Big-hearted… effortlessly riveting. Offers a vision of compassion as a way of life.” – The Hollywood Reporter Author and wildlife rehabber Terry Masear has […]

Sunday, January 26, 2025

1:30 pm

Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on […]

Sunday, January 26, 2025

3:35 pm

Presented by Canyon Cinema With the emergence of Canyon Cinema, that foundational film presenter and distributor, in the early Sixties, there was a visible […]

Sunday, January 26, 2025

3:40 pm

Two girls looking at holiday lights

Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the ‘colors’ of others. Colors of bliss, excitement, and serenity, plus a color […]

Sunday, January 26, 2025

6:00 pm

Critic’s Pick! “A rich, enveloping film that asks viewers to approach it as if tiptoeing through the snow.” – Ben Kenigsberg, The New York […]

Sunday, January 26, 2025

6:00 pm

Select shows in 35mm! Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner ANORA is an audacious, thrilling, and comedic variation on a modern day Cinderella story. Mikey […]

Sunday, January 26, 2025

8:20 pm

“‘DIG! XX’ Explodes and Rebuilds a Cult Rock Doc.” —ROLLING STONE “It rocks. The first movie rocked and this version rocks even harder.” —ROGEREBERT.COM […]

Sunday, January 26, 2025

8:30 pm

Monday, January 27, 2025

A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up […]

Monday, January 27, 2025

6:20 pm

Two girls looking at holiday lights

Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the ‘colors’ of others. Colors of bliss, excitement, and serenity, plus a color […]

Monday, January 27, 2025

8:30 pm

Show added January 27 Rest in peace, David Beginning its life as an aborted TV pilot concerning blonde aspiring actress Betty Elms (Naomi Watts, […]

Monday, January 27, 2025

8:30 pm

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Two girls looking at holiday lights

Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the ‘colors’ of others. Colors of bliss, excitement, and serenity, plus a color […]

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

6:25 pm

Critic’s Pick! “A rich, enveloping film that asks viewers to approach it as if tiptoeing through the snow.” – Ben Kenigsberg, The New York […]

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

8:45 pm

Man sits among fallen buildings

“A profound cinematic event, proving that movies can be made even on the edge of destruction.” – Film Threat From Ground Zero is an […]

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

8:45 pm

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on […]

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

6:10 pm

“Big-hearted… effortlessly riveting. Offers a vision of compassion as a way of life.” – The Hollywood Reporter Author and wildlife rehabber Terry Masear has […]

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

6:20 pm

Two girls looking at holiday lights

Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the ‘colors’ of others. Colors of bliss, excitement, and serenity, plus a color […]

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

8:30 pm

Show added January 27 Rest in peace, David Beginning its life as an aborted TV pilot concerning blonde aspiring actress Betty Elms (Naomi Watts, […]

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

8:40 pm

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Critic’s Pick! “A rich, enveloping film that asks viewers to approach it as if tiptoeing through the snow.” – Ben Kenigsberg, The New York […]

Thursday, January 30, 2025

6:00 pm

Two girls looking at holiday lights

Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the ‘colors’ of others. Colors of bliss, excitement, and serenity, plus a color […]

Thursday, January 30, 2025

6:00 pm

Werner Herzog films a model demonstrating brain stimulation, surrounded by a trio of brainiacs.

The screening on Friday, Jan 17 is At Rush! Q&A with Jack Gallant (Neuroscientist, UC Berkeley), Jamie Daves (co-founder Neurorights Foundation) & Jared Genser (Int’l human […]

Thursday, January 30, 2025

8:20 pm

Join us for a Q&A with director Johan Grimonprez, moderated by California Newsreel Acquisitions Director Cornelius Moore, following the January 5th, 6 PM screening! […]

Thursday, January 30, 2025

8:30 pm

Friday, January 31, 2025

Man and Woman face each other in the snow with a car in the background middle

New Restoration! Geneviève (Catherine Deneuve), a beautiful young Frenchwoman who works at a small-town boutique selling umbrellas, falls for dashing mechanic Guy (Nino Castelnuovo). […]

Friday, January 31, 2025

6:30 pm

Su Li-zhen played by Maggie Cheung Man-yuk in a red overcoat dreaming about love

Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters […]

Friday, January 31, 2025

8:50 pm

February 2025

Saturday, February 1, 2025

Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on […]

Saturday, February 1, 2025

1:00 pm *

Mary Heilmann ranks amongst the most influential American abstract painters of her generation, revered for her unique approach to color and form. Now in […]

Saturday, February 1, 2025

1:15 pm

A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up […]

Saturday, February 1, 2025

3:25 pm

Critic’s Pick! “A rich, enveloping film that asks viewers to approach it as if tiptoeing through the snow.” – Ben Kenigsberg, The New York […]

Saturday, February 1, 2025

5:30 pm

Su Li-zhen played by Maggie Cheung Man-yuk in a red overcoat dreaming about love

Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters […]

Saturday, February 1, 2025

8:10 pm

Sunday, February 2, 2025

The Thinking Game takes you on a fascinating journey into the heart of DeepMind, one of the world’s leading AI labs, as it strives […]

Sunday, February 2, 2025

1:00 pm

Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on […]

Sunday, February 2, 2025

3:20 pm

Man and Woman face each other in the snow with a car in the background middle

New Restoration! Geneviève (Catherine Deneuve), a beautiful young Frenchwoman who works at a small-town boutique selling umbrellas, falls for dashing mechanic Guy (Nino Castelnuovo). […]

Sunday, February 2, 2025

3:30 pm

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

A collage of super-imposed images of the same person with long, curly locks, a gorgeous smile, wearing a garland of flowers

Co-presented by:Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) 3rdi Film Film Festival AmDoc/POV The Taste of Mango is an enveloping, […]

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

6:30 pm

Man and Woman face each other in the snow with a car in the background middle

New Restoration! Geneviève (Catherine Deneuve), a beautiful young Frenchwoman who works at a small-town boutique selling umbrellas, falls for dashing mechanic Guy (Nino Castelnuovo). […]

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

6:30 pm

Thursday, February 6, 2025

OPENING NIGHT How best to commemorate the career of Pavement, one of the defining indie rock bands of the 1990s? Legendary frontman Stephen Malkmus […]

Thursday, February 6, 2025

6:00 pm

Filmmakers in attendance A man with an extraordinary but failing memory tries to solve the mystery of what happened to a woman killed by […]

Thursday, February 6, 2025

8:30 pm

Friday, February 7, 2025

Filmmakers in attendance CENTERPIECE FILM Oscar has dedicated his life to the well-being of his disabled son, Billy. But Oscar is not only a […]

Friday, February 7, 2025

6:00 pm

Filmmakers in attendance The Karamazovs: Fyodor Karamazov is dying and holed up in his oceanfront home with Liz, his loyal caretaker, when his three […]

Friday, February 7, 2025

6:15 pm

Filmmakers in attendance Draft Night: A young Black basketball prodigy struggles with expectations, pressure, and the weight of his own ambition as he waits […]

Friday, February 7, 2025

8:30 pm

Three young women’s week-long summer vacation turns into a transhumanist mystery due to the appearance of the mysterious Dr. Mindfulness and a strange cell […]

Friday, February 7, 2025

8:30 pm

Saturday, February 8, 2025

Filmmakers in attendance   Blossom of Choice: Blossom of Choice is an experimental short film as an offering of change of perception and healing […]

Saturday, February 8, 2025

12:00 pm

From My Cold Dead Hands: Guns, explosions, musical numbers, zombies, tanks and Youtube. Thousands of hours of Youtube videos turned into a crazy cocktail […]

Saturday, February 8, 2025

12:15 pm

Filmmakers in attendance Good Boy: An isolated widower yearns for the good old days and spends the present trying to bring them back. When […]

Saturday, February 8, 2025

2:15 pm

Filmmakers in attendance In order to escape her overprotective drug-dealing stepfather, a young introvert flees to NYC with her pet flying squirrel. After successfully […]

Saturday, February 8, 2025

2:30 pm

Filmmakers in attendance Encrypted: We follow Gia, a young woman with too much weight on her shoulders, as she scathes her way through a […]

Saturday, February 8, 2025

4:30 pm

Filmmakers in attendance Pigs Fly (And Gods Cry): A documentarian acquires capital, learns a passage from Hesiod, and features in his key witness’s documentary, […]

Saturday, February 8, 2025

4:45 pm

Filmmakers in attendance KCSM 91.1 The Bay Area’s Jazz Station to the World: As America’s only original art form, the cultural relevance of jazz […]

Saturday, February 8, 2025

6:45 pm

Touchdown: When meteor storms bring a new life form to earth, global authorities implement emergency controls as they move in secret to eliminate the […]

Saturday, February 8, 2025

7:00 pm

Filmmakers in attendance Shy young barista Simon stumbles upon a magical pink wig that transforms him into Maxxie LaWow, a fabulous drag queen super-shero. […]

Saturday, February 8, 2025

9:00 pm

Berlin is a city of dreams and nightmares in equal measure. Behind the façades of the sometimes ruinous, sometimes futuristic buildings lie human heights […]

Saturday, February 8, 2025

9:00 pm

Sunday, February 9, 2025

The 4 of US: The thirty-five-year-olds Alda, Pier, Giamma, and Rachel have been friends forever. They have big ideals, but they live as precarious […]

Sunday, February 9, 2025

12:00 pm

A boy lays on his side in a field of grass & rocks with a bulldozer in the background.

Advance Screening – Sunday, February 9!! Starts Friday, February 14th Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community’s […]

Sunday, February 9, 2025

1:00 pm

Sideways for Attention: In September of 2001, Chloe, a college senior at a school in lower Manhattan, tests positive for HIV. Over the weeks […]

Sunday, February 9, 2025

2:00 pm

Filmmakers in attendance Anxious.: Nida Chowdhry directs, writes, and stars in her debut feature film ANXIOUS., a surreal dark comedy about a woman named […]

Sunday, February 9, 2025

4:15 pm

Baby Fever: Lila is striving to become the perfect pregnant mother that all the other women in her small town seem to embody. But […]

Sunday, February 9, 2025

6:30 pm

Silent Notes: After finding out he is going deaf, Bruce is stuck at a crossroads: he needs a surgical intervention that he can’t afford. […]

Sunday, February 9, 2025

8:45 pm

Monday, February 10, 2025

Filmmakers in attendance A disillusioned office worker finds freedom and a new sense of self after assuming her missing colleague’s identity on a dating […]

Monday, February 10, 2025

6:15 pm

It’s the 1800’s and the first white settlers have set out for the Pacific coast. They’re seeking freedom, peace and a new life in […]

Monday, February 10, 2025

8:30 pm

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Raised in an oppressive cult, a reclusive schizophrenic discovers that he’s being framed by cult leaders for a series of ritualistic murders. As he […]

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

6:15 pm

Germany, shortly before elections. Anita Martinelli and Sarah Bedford are pursuing grand political goals with their newly founded women’s party FEM. They are campaigning […]

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

8:30 pm

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

From the depths of space, Dracula has devised his most dastardly plan yet; turning the residents of a small American town into his personal […]

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

6:15 pm

Alter, in her 40s, suffers from a profound ailment that is eating her inside out. After attempting suicide, she is consulting her therapist Léandro […]

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

8:30 pm

Thursday, February 13, 2025

ROXIE CLOSING NIGHT Jawu (Temiloluwa Ami-Williams) is a young mother with dreams of a future beyond selling swallows at the local market. At night, […]

Thursday, February 13, 2025

6:00 pm

Employing a nonlinear narrative, Cianfrance’s bittersweet heartbreaker of a movie slides back and forth along a six-year timeline to review crucial points in the […]

Thursday, February 13, 2025

6:30 pm

ROXIE CLOSING NIGHT The Queen of the Ring tells the remarkable true story of Mildred Burke, the first million-dollar female athlete in world history […]

Thursday, February 13, 2025

8:15 pm

Friday, February 14, 2025

A boy lays on his side in a field of grass & rocks with a bulldozer in the background.

Advance Screening – Sunday, February 9!! Starts Friday, February 14th Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community’s […]

Friday, February 14, 2025

6:30 pm

Su Li-zhen played by Maggie Cheung Man-yuk in a red overcoat dreaming about love

Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters […]

Friday, February 14, 2025

8:50 pm

Saturday, February 15, 2025

A boy lays on his side in a field of grass & rocks with a bulldozer in the background.

Advance Screening – Sunday, February 9!! Starts Friday, February 14th Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community’s […]

Saturday, February 15, 2025

4:05 pm

Co-presented by Spoke Art and accompanied by a new alternative movie poster by acclaimed artist Matt Taylor The sleeper arthouse hit of the early […]

Saturday, February 15, 2025

6:30 pm

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Introduction by Jenni Olson with a post-screening conversation with Jenni Olson and Dennis Harvey New Restoration! Co-Presented by Frameline Edward Thompson (Daniel Holt) is […]

Sunday, February 16, 2025

3:30 pm

Saturday, February 22, 2025

Through Faith Petric’s journey, Singing for Justice shows how committed networks of people sustain resistance to inequality and conformity in America – through speaking […]

Saturday, February 22, 2025

1:00 pm

Co-presented by the Shanti Project and Frameline  Extended introduction with Jenni Olson representing The Bressan Project and the Shanti Project  Arthur J. Bressan Jr. […]

Saturday, February 22, 2025

3:30 pm

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Jeff MacDonald & director Andrew Reich IN PERSON! Co-Presented by Amoeba Music Formed in 1978 by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald, and still actively […]

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

6:30 pm

March 2025

Saturday, March 1, 2025

Co-Presented by Frameline.  Extended introduction by Frameline Executive Director Allegra Madsen The wry, incisive debut feature by Cheryl Dunye gave cinema something bracingly new […]

Saturday, March 1, 2025

1:00 pm

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

NEW RESTORATION!  Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Mediterranean, Swept Away is Lina Wertmüller’s most famous and controversial film about sex, love, and politics. On […]

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

6:00 pm

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Co-presented by the Tenderloin Museum and Frameline Post screening discussion with filmmakers Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman moderated by Katie Conry, Executive Director of […]

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

6:30 pm

April 2025

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Co-Presented by Frameline Introduction and post-screening conversation with filmmaker Jenni Olson The Joy of Life (2005) Multitalented performance artist Harriet “Harry” Dodge (By Hook […]

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

6:30 pm