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September 2023

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Black San Quentin prisoner running in a prison yard as a member that tells the story of the 1000 Mile Club, the prison's long distance running club

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 […]

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

6:30 pm

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

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

6:30 pm *

Dinner For Two Director: Joe LobiancoSynopsis: A charming young server calms the nerves of an anxious diner as he prepares for a special occasion. […]

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

8:30 pm

Grave Of The Fireflies by Isao Takahata, co-founder, with Hayao Miyazaki, of Japan’s legendary Studio Ghibli.

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 […]

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

8:50 pm

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

“THE BEST FILM I EVER MADE.”– Orson Welles “GAVE US A NEW WAY OF LOOKING AT FILMS.”– Martin Scorsese Starring Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy […]

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

6:20 pm

Black San Quentin prisoner running in a prison yard as a member that tells the story of the 1000 Mile Club, the prison's long distance running club

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 […]

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

6:30 pm

Dinner For Two Director: Joe LobiancoSynopsis: A charming young server calms the nerves of an anxious diner as he prepares for a special occasion. […]

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

8:50 pm

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

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

8:50 pm

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Moe, a fun-loving theater artist working on a one woman show, finds out that he is dying from an AIDS related illness. Naturally, his […]

Thursday, September 28, 2023

6:45 pm

Black San Quentin prisoner running in a prison yard as a member that tells the story of the 1000 Mile Club, the prison's long distance running club

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 […]

Thursday, September 28, 2023

7:00 pm

Dinner For Two Director: Joe LobiancoSynopsis: A charming young server calms the nerves of an anxious diner as he prepares for a special occasion. […]

Thursday, September 28, 2023

9:05 pm

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. […]

Thursday, September 28, 2023

9:15 pm

Friday, September 29, 2023

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 […]

Friday, September 29, 2023

6:10 pm

Gregorio is a peasant who lives a frustrated life in his small town, Rosillas. Proudly, yet arrogantly, he decides to recover the water of […]

Friday, September 29, 2023

7:00 pm

Playing as part of Floating Features on Red and White Fleet’s hybrid electric vessel Enhydra. When a young woman is killed by a shark […]

Friday, September 29, 2023

9:00 pm

SF Latino Film Festival: Ibiza Blue

August 2020. The lives of three people intersect in the post-Covid19 lockdown Ibiza where they will try to overcome their personal tragedies, rediscover themselves […]

Friday, September 29, 2023

9:15 pm

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are […]

Friday, September 29, 2023

9:30 pm

Saturday, September 30, 2023

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 […]

Saturday, September 30, 2023

1:00 pm

7:10 pm

Black San Quentin prisoner running in a prison yard as a member that tells the story of the 1000 Mile Club, the prison's long distance running club

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 […]

Saturday, September 30, 2023

1:00 pm

SF Latino Film Festival:QueerioCity Shorts

Funny, heartfelt, sexy and inspiring, these films reveal the diversity and queer filmmakers bringing their stories to the screen. Filmmakers in attendance for a […]

Saturday, September 30, 2023

3:00 pm

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

Saturday, September 30, 2023

4:30 pm

Fremont

“A drama with a spare, wry tone that belies its earnest and ample substance.” – Richard Brody, New Yorker Winner Best Director – Karlovy […]

Saturday, September 30, 2023

5:00 pm

CINE+MÁS 15: Bay Area Local Shorts

A showcase of narrative, documentary and even animations films. Filmmakers in attendance for a q&A. #LaGaybie Director:Alma Herrera-Pazmiño Synopsis :A young latina finds her […]

Saturday, September 30, 2023

7:00 pm

Playing as part of Floating Features on Red and White Fleet’s hybrid electric vessel Enhydra. When a young woman is killed by a shark […]

Saturday, September 30, 2023

9:00 pm

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

Saturday, September 30, 2023

9:30 pm

October 2023

Sunday, October 1, 2023

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 […]

Sunday, October 1, 2023

12:30 pm

CINE+MÁS 15: Santa Barbara

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

Sunday, October 1, 2023

1:00 pm

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 […]

Sunday, October 1, 2023

4:10 pm

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 […]

Sunday, October 1, 2023

4:10 pm

Black San Quentin prisoner running in a prison yard as a member that tells the story of the 1000 Mile Club, the prison's long distance running club

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 […]

Sunday, October 1, 2023

5:10 pm

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 […]

Sunday, October 1, 2023

6:25 pm

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 […]

Sunday, October 1, 2023

7:15 pm

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. […]

Sunday, October 1, 2023

8:50 pm

Monday, October 2, 2023

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 […]

Monday, October 2, 2023

7:00 pm

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

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 […]

Monday, October 2, 2023

7:00 pm

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

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 […]

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

7:00 pm

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Hand drawn image of many people gathered around a table. Everyone dressed in high fashion. A woman with a puffy jacket and gray hair is featured.

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

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

6:30 pm

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

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

9:00 pm

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

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

9:00 pm

Thursday, October 5, 2023

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

Thursday, October 5, 2023

7:00 pm

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

Thursday, October 5, 2023

9:00 pm

Grave Of The Fireflies by Isao Takahata, co-founder, with Hayao Miyazaki, of Japan’s legendary Studio Ghibli.

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 […]

Thursday, October 5, 2023

9:15 pm

Friday, October 6, 2023

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

Friday, October 6, 2023

6:50 pm

Saturday, October 7, 2023

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

Saturday, October 7, 2023

1:15 pm

The Soul of Cinema 1

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 […]

Saturday, October 7, 2023

1:30 pm

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 […]

Saturday, October 7, 2023

3:50 pm

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

Saturday, October 7, 2023

6:30 pm

Sunday, October 8, 2023

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

Sunday, October 8, 2023

12:50 pm

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 […]

Sunday, October 8, 2023

3:20 pm

CINE+MÁS 15: 100 Ways to Cross the Border

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 […]

Sunday, October 8, 2023

6:00 pm

Monday, October 9, 2023

MVFF46: Radical - A man smiles while looking at a group of children playing.

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 […]

Monday, October 9, 2023

6:20 pm

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

Monday, October 9, 2023

9:00 pm

MVFF46: Slide - Animated Feature Film by Bill Plympton

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 […]

Monday, October 9, 2023

9:00 pm

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

MVFF46: MÚSICA! - A girl and two boy sitting together as the boys play saxophone and horn instrument.

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 […]

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

6:30 pm

MFF46: Carol Doda Topless at the Condor

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

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

8:45 pm

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

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 […]

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

7:00 pm

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

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

8:50 pm

Friday, October 13, 2023

SF IndieFest: Stay at Conder Beach & Preserving Our Place

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

Friday, October 13, 2023

6:15 pm

SpookFest 2023 on Friday 13th, 7 pm

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 […]

Friday, October 13, 2023

7:00 pm

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 […]

Friday, October 13, 2023

9:00 pm

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” […]

Friday, October 13, 2023

9:40 pm

Saturday, October 14, 2023

SF IndieFest: Call Me Mule + Restoring the Spirit of Place

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 […]

Saturday, October 14, 2023

12:00 pm

SF IndieFest: The Island In Me

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

Saturday, October 14, 2023

2:15 pm

GFF:Down River Jordan + The Wintering Grounds + Paddle Tribal Waters

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 […]

Saturday, October 14, 2023

4:30 pm

Green FF: Soylent Green 50th Anniversary Screening

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

Saturday, October 14, 2023

8:45 pm

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 […]

Saturday, October 14, 2023

9:00 pm

Sunday, October 15, 2023

Green FF: The Freeway Greenway

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 […]

Sunday, October 15, 2023

12:00 pm

Green FF: Cowboy Poets

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 […]

Sunday, October 15, 2023

2:00 pm

Green FF: Lagunaria + A Field Guide to Coastal Fortifications

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 […]

Sunday, October 15, 2023

4:15 pm

“trove of THRILLING INTERVIEWS” THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER “EVERYONE see this movie” ARTFORUM “FASCINATING art-world documentary” VILLAGE VOICE A madcap romp through the 1980’s NYC […]

Sunday, October 15, 2023

6:00 pm

Green FF: A Thousand Pines & Conceiving Our Future

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 […]

Sunday, October 15, 2023

6:30 pm

Monday, October 16, 2023

Green FF: Between the Rains + Florence Fang Community Farm

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 […]

Monday, October 16, 2023

6:15 pm

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Green FF: We Are Tenacious & Oil Washed

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 […]

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

6:15 pm

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Green FF: Out There+ Sending

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 […]

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

6:15 pm

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

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

7:00 pm

9:15 pm

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Green FF: Finding the Money

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? […]

Thursday, October 19, 2023

6:15 pm

Friday, October 20, 2023

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

Friday, October 20, 2023

6:50 pm

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) […]

Friday, October 20, 2023

8:00 pm

Saturday, October 21, 2023

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) […]

Saturday, October 21, 2023

8:00 pm

Sunday, October 22, 2023

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

Sunday, October 22, 2023

1:10 pm

Monday, October 23, 2023

Group of five men in wheelchairs looking at the camera. They are on grass with a brick wall behind them.

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! […]

Monday, October 23, 2023

6:30 pm

Thursday, October 26, 2023

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

Thursday, October 26, 2023

7:30 pm

Friday, October 27, 2023

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 […]

Friday, October 27, 2023

6:30 pm

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 […]

Friday, October 27, 2023

8:00 pm

Saturday, October 28, 2023

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 […]

Saturday, October 28, 2023

4:00 pm

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 […]

Saturday, October 28, 2023

8:00 pm

November 2023

Saturday, November 4, 2023

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

Saturday, November 4, 2023

8:30 pm

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

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

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

6:45 pm