Interest: Music, Art, Food

A Tribute to Mary Harron + “Dalíland”

It’s best to depict egomaniacs, even talented ones like Salvador Dalí (Ben Kingsley, gloriously chewing scenery), through the eyes of someone in their orbit but…
Mija

Young Mexican American music manager Doris Muñoz strives to support her undocumented family while defining her own career as a musician and discovering new talent…
Community Screening: Land of Gold

Soprano Julia Bullock mesmerizes in this entrancing documentary that brings to vivid life John Adams’ and Peter Sellars’ opera Girls of the Golden West and…
Neptune Frost

Replete with mind-altering visual and sonic imagery, this Afrofuturist mélange of music, poetry, and resistance is hypnotic and visionary in its depiction of a genderqueer…
TikTok, Boom.

For young people, TikTok is the most popular platform for creating personalized content. But behind the cute videos lurk issues of censorship and data mining.…
Music + Film: 32 Sounds

Festival favorite Sam Green returns with this immersive documentary, a poem in audio and images that explores the effect of sound on our lives, narrated…
We Feed People

Acclaimed director Ron Howard helms this uplifting documentary profiling renowned chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen, his nonprofit dedicated to feeding people in…
The Thief Collector

A surreal 20th-century mystery unfolds in this fascinating documentary that unpacks the audacious 1985 heist of a Willem de Kooning painting from an Arizona museum…
Sublime

Irresistible garage rock enhances this winning coming-of-age tale as teenage bass player Manu, swept up in a cascade of emotions and hormones, falls in love…
Nothing Compares

Profiling Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O’ Connor’s speedy rise to fame and ensuing controversial stances, this documentary serves as an essential reminder of just how ahead…
Fantastic Negrito: Live Score + “Lost Landscapes of Oakland”

In a one-time only event, rare and rediscovered images of the East Bay are enlivened by a unique score, performed live by roots musician Fantastic…
Lily Topples the World

A young girl’s passion for building and toppling vivid domino creations leads her to YouTube stardom and a career as an artist and entrepreneur. Recommended…