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Films in Competition

Presented at the Festival since its inaugural year in 1957, the Golden Gate Awards (GGAs) are among the most significant honors for emerging global film artists in the United States. Prizes are traditionally awarded in narrative, documentary, and short film categories.

Global Visions

All That’s Left of You
Cherien Dabis (Germany, Cyprus, Palestine, Jordan, Greece, Qatar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2025, 145 min)
 
Cactus Pears
Rohan Parashuram Kanawade (India/UK/Canada 2025, 112 min)
 
Ricky
Rashad Frett (USA 2024, 108 min)
 
Sukkwan Island
Vladimir de Fontenay (France/Norway/Belgium/Netherlands/Luxembourg/UK 2024, 114 min)
 
Surviving Earth
Thea Gajić (UK 2025, 97 min)
 
That Summer in Paris
Valentine Cadic (France 2025, 75 min)
 
The Quiet Son
Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin (France 2024, 119 min)
 
3670
Joonho Park (South Korea 2025, 124 min)
 
Xoftex
Noaz Deshe (Germany/France 2024, 99 min)

Documentary Feature

The Brink of Dreams
Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir (Egypt/France/Denmark/Qatar/Saudi Arabia 2024, 101 min)
 
The Dating Game
Violet Du Feng (USA/UK/Norway 2025, 90 min)
 
Endless Cookie
Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver (Canada 2025, 97 min)
 
Her/Mine
Alexandra Shiva (USA 2025, 82 min)
 
How to Build a Library
Chris King, Maia Lekow (Kenya/Germany 2025, 101 min)
 
I Dreamed His Name
Angela Carabali (Colombia 2025, 86 min)
 
Only on Earth
Robin Petré (Denmark/Spain 2025, 92 min)
 
Sally
Cristina Costantini (USA 2025, 103 min)
 
Seeds
Brittany Shyne (USA 2024, 125 min)
 
Sudan, remember us
Hind Meddeb (France/Qatar/Tunisia 2024, 76 min)
 
Vivien’s Wild Ride
Vivien Hillgrove (USA 2024, 87 min)

New Directors

The Botanist
Jing Yi (China 2025, 96 min)
 
The Devil Smokes
Ernesto Martínez Bucio (Mexico 2025, 97 min)
 
Honeymoon
Zhanna Ozirna (Ukraine 2024, 84 min)
 
Idiotka
Nastasya Popov (USA 2025, 82 min)
 
Ink Wash
Sarra Tsorakidis (Romania/Greece/Denmark 2024, 90 min)
 
Isle Child
Thomas Percy Kim (USA/South Korea 2024, 88 min)
 
Red Path
Lotfi Achour (Tunisia/France/Belgium/Poland/Saudi Arabia/Qatar 2024, 100 min)
 
Shadowbox
Tanushree Das, Saumyananda Sahi (India/France/USA/Spain 2025, 93 min)
 
Where the Wind Comes From
Amel Guellaty (Tunisia/France/Qatar 2025, 99 min)
 
Winter in Sokcho
Koya Kamura (France/South Korea 2024, 104 min)

Cine Latino

Beloved Tropic
Ana Endara (Panama/Colombia 2024, 108 min)
 
The Best Mother in the World
Anna Muylaert (Brazil/Argentina 2025, 106 min)
 
Horizon
César Augusto Acevedo (Colombia/France/Germany/Luxembourg/Chile 2024, 125 min)
 
The Hyperboreans
Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña (Chile 2024, 71 min)
 
The Last First Time
Rafael Ruiz Espejo (Mexico 2025, 76 min)
 
Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)
Joel Alfonso Vargas (USA 2025, 99 min)
 
Rains Over Babel
Gala Del Sol (Colombia/Spain/USA 2025, 118 min)

Mid-Length Film

O R I G I N S
Drea Cooper (USA 2024, 39 min)
 
On Healing Land, Birds Perch
Naja Pham Lockwood (USA, Vietnam 2025, 33 min)
 
Two People Exchanging Saliva
Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh (France, USA 2024, 36 min)

Narrative Short Film

Across the Waters
Part of Shorts 1: Sublime Interludes
Viv Li (France 2024, 15 min)
 
Bad For a Moment
Part of Shorts 2: Under Precarious Circumstances
Daniel Soares (Portugal 2024, 15 min)
 
Bloomed in the Water
Part of Shorts 4: Family Matters
Joanne Mony Park (USA 2024, 14 min)
 
Buick
Part of Shorts 2: Under Precarious Circumstances
Michael Godere (USA 2024, 12 min)
 
Chow
Part of Shorts 3: Dark Waves & Stranger Tides
Kevin Armento, Jaki Bradley (USA 2024, 15 min)
 
Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites
Part of Shorts 4: Family Matters
Chheangkea (Cambodia/France, USA 2025, 19 min)
 
/​HAAW/
Part of Shorts 3: Dark Waves & Stranger Tides
Joey Scoma (USA 2024, 12 min)
 
Hermanos
Part of Shorts 4: Family Matters
Miguel Pérez Castelazo (Mexico 2024, 13 min)
 
How Was Your Weekend?
Part of Shorts 3: Dark Waves & Stranger Tides
Cam Banfield (USA 2025, 9 min)
 
I Lay for You to Sleep
Part of Shorts 1: Sublime Interludes
Ali Al Hajri (Qatar 2024, 15 min)
 
MANGO
Part of Shorts 3: Dark Waves & Stranger Tides
Joan Iyiola (UK/France 2025, 11 min)
 
Maputo
Part of Shorts 1: Sublime Interludes
Lucas Birolli Abrahão (Brazil 2024, 15 min)
 
Memories of Zhi
Part of Shorts 2: Under Precarious Circumstances
Mingxin Li (China/UK 2024, 23 min)
 
Nine Days in August
Part of Shorts 2: Under Precarious Circumstances
Ella Knorz (Germany 2024, 17 min)
 
Saint Andrews
Part of Shorts 4: Family Matters
Erin Ramirez (USA/Jamaica 2025, 15 min)
 
She Raised Me
Part of Shorts 3: Dark Waves & Stranger Tides
Ben Lewis (USA/Canada 25, 13 min)
 
Sola
Part of Shorts 4: Family Matters
Lana Barić (Croatia 2023, 15 min)
 
Stomach Bug
Part of Shorts 3: Dark Waves & Stranger Tides
Matty Crawford (UK 2024, 15 min)
 
Vox Humana
Part of Shorts 1: Sublime Interludes
Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan (Philippines/Singapore, USA 2024, 22 min)

Documentary Short Film

Clara’s Fruit
Part of Shorts 5: Docs
Morgan Mathews (USA 2024, 15 min) 
 
Firefighter Goats
Part of Shorts 5: Docs
Phoebe Dobey, George McCann (Norway 2024, 11 min) 
 
Fragmented
Part of Shorts 5: Docs
Tanya Marar, Balolas Carvalho (Palestine/Portugal 2025, 7 min) 
 
The Hemingway
Part of Shorts 5: Docs
Patrick Sean O’Brien, Evan Mathis (USA 2024, 10 min) 
 
Losing Your Home
Part of Shorts 5: Docs
Emmanuel Rioux (Canada 2024, 19 min) 
 
Rat Rod
Part of Shorts 1: Sublime Interludes
Jared Jakins, Carly Jakins (USA 2025, 11 min) 
 
Waska: The Forest Is My Family
Part of Shorts 5: Docs
Nina Gualinga, Boloh Miranda, Elizabeth Swanson (Ecuador, UK 2025, 15 min) 

Animated Short Film

My Brother, My Brother
Part of Shorts 4: Family Matters
Saad Dnewar, Abdelrahman Dnewar (Egypt/France/Germany 2025, 15 min)
 
The Mud Under My Window
Part of Shorts 4: Family Matters
Violette Delvoye (France/Belgium 2025, 12 min)
 
Ordinary Life
Part of Shorts 1: Sublime Interludes
Yoriko Mizushiri (France/Japan 2025, 10 min)
 
Retirement Plan
Part of Shorts 2: Under Precarious Circumstances
John Kelly (Ireland 2024, 7 min)

Bay Area Short Film

A Brighter Summer Day For The Lady Avengers
Part of Shorts 3: Dark Waves & Stranger Tides
Birdy Wei-Ting Hung (Taiwan/USA 2024, 12 min)
 
After What Happened at the Library
Part of Shorts 2: Under Precarious Circumstances
Syra McCarthy (USA 2024, 15 min)
 
Camp Widow
Part of Shorts 5: Docs
Laura Green, Anna Moot-Levin (USA 2025, 15 min)
 
Dawn Every Day
Part of Shorts 2: Under Precarious Circumstances
Amir Youssef (Egypt 2024, 20 min)

Family Films Short Film

The Girl with the Occupied Eyes
Part of Shorts 6: Family Films
André Carrilho (Portugal 2024, 8 min)
 
Have I Swallowed Your Dreams
Part of Shorts 6: Family Films
Clara Chan (Canada 2024, 6 min)
 
Hoofs on Skates
Part of Shorts 6: Family Films
Ignas Meilūnas (Lithuania 2024, 13 min)
 
Livestreams with GrandmaPuzzles
Part of Shorts 6: Family Films
Emily Sheskin (USA 2024, 6 min) 
 
On a Sunday at Eleven
Part of Shorts 6: Family Films
Alicia K. Harris (Canada 2024, 9 min)
 
Snow Bear
Part of Shorts 6: Family Films
Aaron Blaise (USA 2024, 11 min)
 
Tule
Part of Shorts 6: Family Films
Jocelyn Garcia (USA 2024, 4 min)

Youth Works Short Film

As You Are
Part of Shorts 7: Youth Works
Daria Strachan (USA 2024, 7 min)
 
The Brave Ones
Part of Shorts 7: Youth Works
Mahdiyeh Abbaszadeh (Iran 2025, 4 min)
 
Coop
Part of Shorts 7: Youth Works
Mujtaba Alhejji (Saudi Arabia 2024, 12 min)
 
Echoes of a Sunlit Koi
Part of Shorts 7: Youth Works
Ying Zhao (China 2025, 5 min)
 
Junebug
Part of Shorts 7: Youth Works
Amiko Muscat (USA 2024, 6 min)
 
little dreamer
Part of Shorts 7: Youth Works
Astrid Nymo-Young (USA 2024, 5 min)
 
Painting Resistance
Part of Shorts 7: Youth Works
Dylan Clarke, Aesha Gluck, Liam Renaud (USA 2024, 9 min)
 
Reach for Me
Part of Shorts 7: Youth Works
Hazel Baileh Klein Wolff (USA 2025, 5 min)
 
Thunderbird and Killer Whale: S-hwuhwa’us & Qul-lhanumutsun
Part of Shorts 7: Youth Works
Jason Cheng (Canada 2024, 8 min)
 
Umbral Cloak
Part of Shorts 7: Youth Works
Cade Savage Schwartz (USA 2024, 5 min)
 
Why Can’t We Just Be Ghosts?
Part of Shorts 7: Youth Works
Patrick Jang (USA 2025, 9 min)

SFFILM Festival Filmmaker Toolkit

We’re thrilled to welcome you to the 68th San Francisco International Film Festival! To help you promote your film during the Festival—and get a lift from our own social media presence—we’ve put together a social media toolkit. Below, you’ll find your social media graphics, SFFILM’s handles, the Festival’s official hashtags, and other content that will help you amplify your posts.

Remember: tagging SFFILM in your posts allows us to easily like, share, and comment—and that extends your posts’ reach to our audience of media, industry folks, ticket buyers, sponsors, and funders!

FESTIVAL ASSETS

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KEY INFORMATION

  • The 68th San Francisco International Film Festival runs April 17–27,2025
  • Tickets are on sale now at sffilm.org
  • Scroll through the Festival Program to find all film descriptions and showtimes.
  • Social media graphics to promote the festival are in the Festival Assets folder.

2025 SFFILM Festival: Production Assistant

We are no longer accepting applications for this role.

Summary

The two Production Assistants provide production support across all SFFILM Festival Operations teams, as supervised by the Office and Production Manager. This includes pre-festival events, all venue load in and load outs, event set up and breakdown, and other tasks as needed.

This position is expected to provide on-site support for the 11 day, in-person SFFILM Festival (April 17 – 27) in venues across the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as several pre-fest launch events, and to work in accordance with in-office requirements as determined by organization-wide and department policies. The ideal start date for this position is April 7, 2025. This position is paid hourly at the rate of $25 per hour and is eligible for overtime. The end date for this role is May 2, 2025. During the festival, night and weekend availability is required.

Principal Duties

  • Support the build out of all festival venues, including our exhibition venues and the SFFILM Festival Lounge, with some light construction
  • Pick up, deliver, and transport sponsored product pre-Festival
  • Support the load in and load out of all festival venues and temporary spaces
  • Set up / install festival signage at various festival venues
  • Set up and break down press lines (red carpets, step and repeats, and lights) at venues and events throughout the festival
  • Provide production support at events and parties, the Festival Lounge, and other areas of the festival as needed, including but not limited to light bartending, supporting event check in, and other duties as assigned
  • Work with the Production Manager on the movement of all production equipment, furniture, product, materials, and green room provisions to various venues throughout the festival
  • Support and provide educational opportunities for the Operations intern, including training interns on light production skills (such as setting up lights or how to safely and appropriately pack equipment)
  • Load equipment back into year-round office post-fest, making sure rentals are returned and owned inventory is accounted for and organized

Experience/Skills Required

  • A valid driver’s license and clean driving record required – offer of this position will be contingent on approval by SFFILM’s insurance
  • Ability to regularly move and lift heavy equipment
  • Ability to easily lift 50 pounds and comfort with heavy lifting and manual labor
  • Professional attitude and demeanor
  • Excellent communication, decision-making and creative problem-solving skills
  • Detail-oriented
  • Ability to anticipate needs and take direction
  • Ability to think and act quickly under pressure
  • At ease interacting with people with vastly different backgrounds and roles
  • Comfortable with long hours during festival
  • Basic construction skills
  • Comfort driving in Bay Area and knowledge of Bay Area geography is a plus

Supervision

This position reports to the Office and Production Manager

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