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USA | Fiction | 93 Endless Cookie Sat, Apr 19 at 9:00 pm Apr 19 Endless Cookie April 19, 2025 at 9:00 pm PT Marina Theatre From distinct backgrounds, Seth and Pete Scriver come together to record Pete’s stories in this c... Canada | Documentary | 97 Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story Sun, Apr 20 at 11:30 am Apr 20 Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story April 20, 2025 at 11:30 am PT BAMPFA Edna O’Brien became notorious for writing sexually explicit novels in the ‘60s and ‘70s that insp... How Deep Is Your Love Sun, Apr 20 at 12:00 pm Apr 20 How Deep Is Your Love April 20, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT Premier Theater at One Letterman As scientists uncover new lifeforms in the deep sea, their discoveries inspire wonder in a docume... UK | Documentary | 100 Her/Mine Sun, Apr 20 at 12:15 pm Apr 20 Her/Mine April 20, 2025 at 12:15 pm PT Marina Theatre Filmmaker Alexandra Shiva pieces together memories of her Hollywood scion mother, rooting through... USA | Documentary | 82 Folktales Sun, Apr 20 at 12:30 pm Apr 20 Folktales April 20, 2025 at 12:30 pm PT Marina Theatre Teenagers attend a rural high school in the Norwegian wilderness where the curriculum includes le... USA | Documentary | 106 Ghost Trail Sun, Apr 20 at 1:00 pm Apr 20 Ghost Trail April 20, 2025 at 1:00 pm PT Presidio Theatre A Syrian exile and former literature professor, now living in France, hunts the prison guard who ... Visual Storytelling Workshop with Alicia K. Harris Sun, Apr 20 at 2:00 pm Apr 20 Visual Storytelling Workshop with Alicia K. Harris April 20, 2025 at 2:00 pm PT SFFILM Festival Lounge "Join Alicia K. Harris, award-winning filmmaker and director of On a Sunday at Eleven, for an int... 9 (Film RT) Seeds Sun, Apr 20 at 2:15 pm Apr 20 Seeds April 20, 2025 at 2:15 pm PT BAMPFA This visually stunning portrait reflects on identity, legacy, and the cyclical nature of life as ... The Brink of Dreams Sun, Apr 20 at 2:45 pm Apr 20 The Brink of Dreams April 20, 2025 at 2:45 pm PT Marina Theatre In a conservative Egyptian village, a group of girls form a street theater troupe, using performa... Egypt | Documentary | 101 Cutting Through Rocks Sun, Apr 20 at 2:45 pm Apr 20 Cutting Through Rocks April 20, 2025 at 2:45 pm PT Premier Theater at One Letterman The first female elected to her rural Iranian village’s council refuses to follow patriarchal nor... Ferrari: Fury & The Monster Sun, Apr 20 at 3:30 pm Apr 20 Ferrari: Fury & The Monster April 20, 2025 at 3:30 pm PT Presidio Theatre Motorsports engineer Mauro Forghieri, creator of the legendary Ferrari 250 GTO, takes center stag... USA | Documentary | 80 Festival Talk: SFFILM Sloan Science in Cinema Pri... Sun, Apr 20 at 3:30 pm Apr 20 Festival Talk: SFFILM Sloan Science in Cinema Prize: Talking About Twisters April 20, 2025 at 3:30 pm PT Walt Disney Family Museum In partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, SFFILM is thrilled to award the Sloan Science... Shadowbox Sun, Apr 20 at 3:30 pm Apr 20 Shadowbox April 20, 2025 at 3:30 pm PT Marina Theatre Maya works multiple jobs to keep her household running until her husband’s disappearance and trou... Sally Sun, Apr 20 at 5:15 pm Apr 20 Sally April 20, 2025 at 5:15 pm PT Premier Theater at One Letterman Astronaut Sally Ride blazed a trail as the first American woman in space in 1983, while her perso... USA | Documentary | 99 Ink Wash Sun, Apr 20 at 5:30 pm Apr 20 Ink Wash April 20, 2025 at 5:30 pm PT Marina Theatre A heartbroken mural painter nearing 40 retreats to a remote Romanian hotel, where the surrounding... Romania | Fiction | 90 Beloved Tropic Sun, Apr 20 at 5:30 pm Apr 20 Beloved Tropic April 20, 2025 at 5:30 pm PT BAMPFA A Colombian immigrant woman in Panama cares for a matriarch suffering from dementia in a powerful... The Dutchman Sun, Apr 20 at 5:45 pm Apr 20 The Dutchman April 20, 2025 at 5:45 pm PT Marina Theatre In this powerful reimagining of Amiri Baraka’s 1964 play, successful-but-troubled man about town ... USA | Fiction | 94 Only on Earth Sun, Apr 20 at 6:00 pm Apr 20 Only on Earth April 20, 2025 at 6:00 pm PT Presidio Theatre In the hottest summer on record in Galicia, Spain, flames engulf the picturesque hills as fires r... Denmark | Documentary | 92 Horizon Sun, Apr 20 at 8:00 pm Apr 20 Horizon April 20, 2025 at 8:00 pm PT Premier Theater at One Letterman Decades-long civil conflict has claimed the lives of many in Colombia. This visually transcendent... Colombia | Fiction | 125 Red Path Sun, Apr 20 at 8:00 pm Apr 20 Red Path April 20, 2025 at 8:00 pm PT Marina Theatre Haunted by his cousin’s brutal murder, a young shepherd in Tunisia navigates trauma through visio... Tunisia | Fiction | 100 3670 Sun, Apr 20 at 8:15 pm Apr 20 3670 April 20, 2025 at 8:15 pm PT BAMPFA A young North Korean defector’s path towards self-discovery brings him into Seoul’s vibrant gay c... Cloud Sun, Apr 20 at 8:30 pm Apr 20 Cloud April 20, 2025 at 8:30 pm PT Marina Theatre An unscrupulous online reseller’s misdeeds catch up with him in mysterious and frightening ways i... Japan | Fiction | 123 Operation Taco Gary's Sun, Apr 20 at 8:30 pm Apr 20 Operation Taco Gary's April 20, 2025 at 8:30 pm PT Presidio Theatre Simon Rex stars as a conspiracy oddball who resorts to extreme measures to rescue his brother fro... USA | Fiction | 88 Viet and Nam Mon, Apr 21 at 5:45 pm Apr 21 Viet and Nam April 21, 2025 at 5:45 pm PT Marina Theatre The ghosts of the Vietnam conflict fall heavily on war orphan Nam, who finds solace in the arms o... Vietnam | Fiction | 129 Winter in Sokcho Mon, Apr 21 at 6:00 pm Apr 21 Winter in Sokcho April 21, 2025 at 6:00 pm PT Premier Theater at One Letterman In a snowy seaside town on South Korea’s east coast, a mysterious French artist upends an introsp... France | Fiction | 104 The Chaplain and the Doctor Mon, Apr 21 at 6:00 pm Apr 21 The Chaplain and the Doctor April 21, 2025 at 6:00 pm PT Marina Theatre An unlikely partnership forms between a chaplain and a physician in an Oakland trauma center, cha... USA | Documentary | 86 Chain Reactions Mon, Apr 21 at 6:30 pm Apr 21 Chain Reactions April 21, 2025 at 6:30 pm PT Presidio Theatre Tobe Hooper’s slashtastic classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre shocked moviegoers upon its 1974 r... USA | Documentary | 103 Xoftex Mon, Apr 21 at 8:30 pm Apr 21 Xoftex April 21, 2025 at 8:30 pm PT Premier Theater at One Letterman The surreal and haunting limbo of asylum seekers’ daily lives reveals itself in Greece’s Xoftex c... Germany | Fiction | 99 Sloan Science on Screen Award: Magma Mon, Apr 21 at 8:30 pm Apr 21 Sloan Science on Screen Award: Magma April 21, 2025 at 8:30 pm PT Marina Theatre The struggles between scientists, community members, and local politicians spills over like the t... France | Fiction | 85 + Export Events
