Interest: Women Writers, Directors + Producers

  • Closing Night: Cha Cha Real Smooth

    Closing Night: Cha Cha Real Smooth

    Deeply ambivalent 22-year-old Andrew, a bat mitzvah party-starter, befriends single mother Domino (Dakota Johnson) and falls for a homelife that has no room for him…

  • Children of the Mist

    Children of the Mist

    Living in isolation from the modern world in the mountains of Vietnam, feisty Hmong teenager Di must decide if she will succumb to tradition or…

  • Trinh T. Minh-ha: Persistence of Vision Award + What About China?

    Trinh T. Minh-ha: Persistence of Vision Award + What About China?

    UC Berkeley professor and experimental filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha fascinates with this video essay examining the mercurial nature of China nearly half a century after…

  • Wet Sand

    Wet Sand

    A granddaughter returns to her reclusive grandfather’s seaside village in Georgia after his suicide to organize his funeral only to discover his long-suppressed secret love…

  • Sublime

    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…

  • Opening Night: Stay Awake

    Opening Night: Stay Awake

    A tender portrait emerges of the day-to-day fight for sobriety and the hopeful resilience of families attempting to overcome addiction in this powerful drama that…

  • Sun & Daughter

    Sun & Daughter

    At Lake Titicaca in the mountains of Bolivia, 10-year-old Lucia concocts a mythical reunion with her father, who is away working in La Paz.

  • The Thief Collector

    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…