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SUMMARY:Shorts Block 5: Family Films
DESCRIPTION:From intergalactic cardboard adventures to magical whales\, stubborn staircases\, and unexpected animal mishaps\, this delightful collection of short films celebrates imagination\, resilience\, and the connections that bring us together. Animation giant Bill Plympton (The Fan and the Flower\, Festival 2006)\, Academy Award®-winning actor Renée Zellweger (making her directing debut)\, and a cohort of talented independent filmmakers blend inventive animation with thoughtful live-action tales that span cultures and generations. Filled with warmth\, wonder\, and a touch of mischief\, this program invites children\, parents\, and curious viewers alike to see the world through playful and heartfelt perspectives. —Chris Lawrence \nRecommended for ages 5 and up. Films are in alphabetical order rather than order of play. Total runtime 64 min \nThe Apricot\nAlex Z. Avila (USA\, Mexico 2025\, 9 min)\nA young boy is eager to prove himself to his Mexican American family while working a long day on his grandfather’s apricot farm. \nCardboard\nJ.P. Vine (UK 2025\, 8 min)\nA struggling single dad pig fears he’s failed his piglets after moving them into a rundown trailer park—until a cardboard box launches them on an intergalactic adventure. \nDuet\nLéo Brunel (France 2025\, 1 min)\nTwo movers struggle to haul a grand piano up a stubborn staircase—only to discover a passion neither of them saw coming. \nFirst Winter\nSchantelle  Alonzo (USA 2025\, 5 min)\nWhile experiencing his first winter in Chicago\, Ángel\, a young immigrant\, reminisces about his time at home. \nLittle Things\nNoam Rignault Clement (France\, Spain\, USA 2026\, 6 min)\nTaking his mother’s advice to enjoy the little things in life\, a nine-year-old boy in the charming French countryside embarks with a stolen garden gnome on an inquisitive quest to find just that. \nA Pain in the Butt\nElena Walf (Germany\, Croatia 2025\, 5 min)\nAs a hedgehog prepares to hibernate\, one of its quills lodges in a dog’s behind. Desperate for a solution\, the animals embark on an unexpected journey. \nSwim Sistas\nCatherine Joy White (UK 2025\, 11 min)\nFour Black women\, including Great Britain’s first Black female Olympian\, explore healing\, resilience\, and their historical relationship to water through swimming. \nTHEY\nRenée Zellweger (UK 2025\, 8 min)\nIn a complaint-ridden town\, a hopeful hero and his trusty dog hatch a plan to encourage a return to better days. \nWhale 52 – Suite for Man\, Boy\, and Whale\nDaniel Neiden (USA 2025\, 11 min)\nDrawing on the legend of the “loneliest whale\,” a boy with selective mutism and an aging widower—bound by loss and sorrow—discover a magical pen and journal that allows them to hear each other’s unspoken cries and find healing.
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/shorts-block-5-family-films/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
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SUMMARY:Renoir
DESCRIPTION:Set in late-80s suburban Tokyo\, 11-year-old Fuki is thrust into adolescence by the harsh realities surrounding her parents. Her father Kenji (Lily Franky) is suffering from a terminal illness\, and her mother Utako (Hikari Ishida) is overburdened by the consequences. For Fuki (Yui Suzuki)\, the specter of death begins manifesting in various corners of her daily life\, leading her to seek a respite from engulfing tragedy with her irrepressible imagination. Chie Hiyakawa expands on her meditation on mortality\, first explored in Plan 75\, offering a distinctly arresting perspective centered on Suzuki’s outstanding performance where she channels grief in ways that feels wholly new and hauntingly truthful. Renoir serves as a provocative meditation on the ponderosity of life and ultimately what imbues it with meaning. —Jordan Klein
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/renoir/
LOCATION:BAMPFA\, 2155 Center Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Wages of Fear
DESCRIPTION:Stranded in South America with no jobs and no money\, four men risk their lives for a big payday when they agree to drive two trucks full of nitroglycerine to a far-off oil field. The treacherous road is windy\, unpaved\, and peppered with obstacles. The trucks lack shock absorbers and suspension\, so the possibility exists that the loads might combust with only the slightest jostling. But the $2000 per man waiting at the end of the trip is too much to resist for Mario (Yves Montand)\, Jo (Charles Vanel)\, Luigi (Folco Lulli)\, and Bimba (Peter van Eyck). Henri-Georges Clouzot’s classic thriller is a masterclass in building and maintaining almost unbearable suspense. The first third of the movie sets the stakes as it creates emotional investment in the characters\, especially Mario and Jo. Then the journey itself packs a wallop. Will it end in the money or this a drive straight into hell? —Pam Grady \nThe Wages of Fear screened at the 1978 Festival as part of a tribute to Yves Montand\, with the actor in attendance. \nFilms from the Vault revisits previously presented titles at the San Francisco International Film Festival\, highlighting the Festival’s role in championing emerging artists and iconic auteurs and inviting audiences to rediscover these films anew. —Jessie Fairbanks \n 
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/the-wages-of-fear/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
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SUMMARY:Time and Water
DESCRIPTION:Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason faces an unthinkable task: composing the eulogy for Okjökull\, the first glacier declared dead due to climate change. In Sara Dosa’s (Fire of Love\, Festival 2022) luminous documentary\, Magnason confronts the disappearance of his country’s ice while preserving the stories of his grandparents\, intertwining personal history with vanishing landscapes. Drawing from home movies\, photographs\, songs\, and folklore\, Dosa constructs an immersive portrait of loss and continuity. Moving seamlessly between intimate recollections and the monumental sweep of glaciers over millennia\, Time and Water is a visually striking meditation on vulnerability\, charting the fragility of the natural world and the urgent need to bear witness before vital elements of it disappear. —Jessie Fairbanks
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/time-and-water/
LOCATION:Premier Theater at One Letterman\, 1 Letterman Dr # B\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94129\, United States
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Stories: Pitch Forum
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Stories: Pitch Forum is a premier industry event celebrating the creativity and diversity of San Francisco’s filmmaking community. Designed to amplify the voices of local storytellers\, this forum provides a platform for filmmakers to present their narrative projects to an audience of industry professionals and the local creative community. \nSelected filmmakers will have the opportunity to showcase their vision through a five to ten minute on stage pitch presentation followed by feedback from a board of distinguished panelists from different sectors of the film industry. \nPresenting Filmmakers:\nEstevan Padilla\, Erika Cohn\, Juliet Berman\, Pete Lee\, George Rush\, and Cheryl Dunye.
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/san-francisco-stories-pitch-forum-spring-2026/
LOCATION:SFFILM Festival Lounge 2026\, 1008 General Kennedy Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94129\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 SFFILM Festival
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SUMMARY:Hair\, Paper\, Water…
DESCRIPTION:Cao Thị Hậu and her family live in Vietnam surrounded by rolling green hills enveloped in mist. Here\, she sits with her grandchildren tending to their pains and spinning stories of the cave in Quảng Bình where she was born. Folk tales\, bees\, tigers\, and home remedies all braid themselves into her fables and the wisdom she imparts. As a storyteller and one of the few remaining indigenous Rục people\, Hậu is the keeper of memories and knowledge. She is the steward of a fast-disappearing language\, and it is her duty to fill the lives of her descendants with her words as she prepares to answer that last call from the faraway cave. Using Bolex cameras and a lush sound design\, filmmakers Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quy deliver a visual treat along with an invitation to enter Hậu’s extraordinary world. —Bedatri Choudhury
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/hair-paper-water/
LOCATION:BAMPFA\, 2155 Center Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:The World of Love
DESCRIPTION:Boisterous\, mischievous\, and seemingly unassailable\, Lee Joo-in is the master of her world. Whether dancing with classmates\, sparring with her charismatic brother and devoted mother (Parasite’s Chang Hye-jin)\, or sharing tender moments with her boyfriend\, Joo-in’s life appears in harmony. That balance shatters after a public confrontation and a series of unsettling anonymous messages compel her to confront difficult truths long buried. Bong Joon-ho hails director Yoon Ga-eun as a master at eliciting extraordinary performances from child actors\, exemplified in newcomer Seo Su-bin’s achingly tender and multifaceted portrayal of Joo-in. The World of Love further establishes Yoon as one of the most exciting emerging voices in contemporary Korean cinema. —Jordan Klein
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/the-world-of-love/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 SFFILM Festival
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SUMMARY:Joybubbles
DESCRIPTION:An extraordinary man deserves an extraordinary documentary\, and director Rachael J. Morrison delivers exactly that with this lively portrait of Josef Carl Engressia\, also known as Joybubbles. In the era of analog telephones\, when long-distance calls were prohibitively expensive\, Engressia—born blind and gifted with perfect pitch—discovered he could whistle the precise tones that unlocked the phone network\, allowing him to place free calls around the world. His unusual talent as one of the earliest “phone phreaks” brought both notoriety and an arrest. Yet Joybubbles’ greatest gift was his desire for connection. Later in life\, he created whimsical recorded stories that anyone could access by phone\, forming lasting friendships and taking calls from anyone who reached out. The film uses archival footage\, audio interviews\, and poppy graphics to capture the whimsy and ingenuity of Joybubbles’ life. He was a man who lived to bring happiness to the world. He is still doing it through this irresistible film. —Pam Grady
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/joybubbles/
LOCATION:Premier Theater at One Letterman\, 1 Letterman Dr # B\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94129\, United States
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SUMMARY:Risa and the Wind Phone
DESCRIPTION:An abandoned telephone booth calls out to 10-year-old Risa. After a tragic fire devastates their small town\, residents take to calling the dead on an out-of-order telephone high atop a hill. But only Risa can hear the voices from the other side. Hoping to finally contact her mysterious father somewhere in this crowd of impatient spirits\, she starts to take on the unfinished business of departed loved ones. Continuing a game of chess\, locating life insurance policies\, and finding a new home for a lost dog all become part of Risa’s daily to-do list. What starts as a simple set of tasks aided by a well-meaning neighbor\, turns into a life-defining search for love and acceptance in this charming storybook romp from acclaimed director Juan Cabral. –Amber Love
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/risa-and-the-wind-phone/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
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SUMMARY:Blue Heron
DESCRIPTION:A masterful debut\, this depiction of a young girl whose family is contending with a challenging older sibling weaves autobiographical and documentary elements seamlessly into a singularly poignant package. Sasha’s family emigrated from Hungary to Vancouver Island in the 1990s. Life there is pretty bucolic—outdoor swims\, watching cartoons—but there are outbursts of increasingly odd\, antisocial behavior from her older brother Jeremy. Sasha takes these moments in stride but notes her parents’ conversations in their native tongue that suggest something more serious and worrisome is happening. Director Sophy Romvari captures the sights and sounds of adolescence impeccably and\, when the film employs a brave narrative gambit around its halfway point\, she ineffably delineates the blur of memory and the tragic inability to avert crisis where one’s personal history is concerned. The extremely intentional camerawork by Maya Bankovic is vibrant but unobtrusive\, observing the family (and especially Sasha) with a gentle but probing eye. —Rod Armstrong
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/blue-heron/
LOCATION:BAMPFA\, 2155 Center Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:If I Go Will They Miss Me
DESCRIPTION:Walter Thompson-Hernández’s stunning feature debut is a coming-of-age story set in South Los Angeles\, blending social and magical realism\, Greek mythology\, and vérité observation into a poetic reflection on family\, legacy\, and dreams. Adapted from the writer-director’s acclaimed short\, the film follows 12-year-old Lil Ant\, a sensitive\, artistic boy navigating life in the shadow of his father\, Big Ant\, recently released from prison. The filmmaker charts the emotional journey of father and son as they struggle to reconnect\, balancing youthful imagination with the rhythms of their neighborhood. A cast of nonprofessional actors join Danielle Brooks and J. Alphonse Nicholson\, bringing raw immediacy to Thompson-Hernández’s vivid narrative. Streets and alleys become spaces of discovery\, offering a tender\, inventive portrait of adolescence and the fragile bonds that anchor us to family\, community\, and inheritance. —Jessie Fairbanks
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/if-i-go-will-they-miss-me/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cookie Queens
DESCRIPTION:Ara\, Shannon Elizabeth\, Nikki\, and Olive live by the mantra\, “Sell! Sell! Sell!” Each Girl Scout in this diverse group has her own sales goal to reach or maybe even surpass during the short cookie-selling season. The race to become the Cookie Queen is not for the faint of the heart with a surprising amount of money and rewards like summer camp and European trips on the line. In between lugging wagons piled high with boxes across town and weekends spent manning cookie booths\, the girls find themselves pulled between their ambition to succeed and the desire to just be a kid and play. This adorable coming-of-age story—a Sundance hit—follows the highs and lows of a single season\, illuminating both the pressures of entrepreneurship at such a young age\, and the empowerment of nurturing their aspirations. —Amber Love \nNote: The April 30 screening will be presented with Open Captions
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/cookie-queens/
LOCATION:Premier Theater at One Letterman\, 1 Letterman Dr # B\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94129\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost School
DESCRIPTION:For many kids\, the idea of never having to go to school again may seem like a dream come true\, but 10-year-old Rabia (Nazualiya Arsalan) loves learning. Despite growing up in rural Pakistan\, where educating girls is not much of a priority\, the child eagerly attends to feed her endless curiosity. But then her school shuts down suddenly\, supposedly because the teacher became possessed by an evil spirit. Rabia is not convinced and when her mother lacks clear answers\, the determined girl sets out to uncover the truth. Undeterred by eerie occurrences\, she finds a web of patriarchy\, bureaucracy\, and corruption responsible for the closure not just of her school but of others like it. Wrapped in a children’s fable\, Ghost School paints a bleak picture of a society that ignores its daughters\, leavened by Rabia’s unrelenting determination that shines through like a beacon. —Bedatri Choudhury
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/ghost-school/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
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SUMMARY:It Would Be Night in Caracas
DESCRIPTION:The lawlessness afoot in Venezuela’s capital city is vibrantly captured in this gripping adaptation of Karina Sainz Borgo’s novel by the filmmaking team behind Bad Hair (Festival 2014). It’s 2017\, and Adelaida (Natalia Reyes) returns to Caracas to bury her mother and finds a metropolis teeming with chaos. While she huddles in the apartment she shared with her mom\, memories of childhood and a doomed romance as a young adult flood back in flashbacks. Leaving one day for a brief foray for supplies\, she returns to the building and finds the flat forcibly occupied by armed members of the resistance. Relocating into the abandoned apartment of a neighbor\, she also rescues Santiago\, a former colleague who has been jailed\, and they shelter together to plan next steps. With violence at their doorstep\, Adelaida and Santiago must attempt to escape from a building (and a city) that holds them captive. —Rod Armstrong
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/it-would-be-night-in-caracas/
LOCATION:BAMPFA\, 2155 Center Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 SFFILM Festival
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SUMMARY:Sender
DESCRIPTION:Severance’s Britt Lower stars as Julia\, a young woman whose online shopping habit takes an alarming turn in this quirky thriller. Fired three weeks ago and now three weeks sober\, Julia fills her endless days with internet buying sprees. But then boxes start to arrive that contain uncomfortably personal items that she didn’t order. Enlisting the help of delivery driver Charlie (David Dastmalchian)\, Julia tries desperately to discover who the sender is\, and how whoever it is could know her exact shade of lipstick. The search sends her spiraling down a paranoid rabbit hole\, as the packages keep piling up. Russell Goldman’s debut feature\, produced by Sender costar Jamie Lee Curtis\, is a wildly imaginative send-up of our infatuation with online shopping and a disturbing commentary on what can happen when personal details become company knowledge. Rhea Seahorn also stars. —Amber Love
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/sender/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 SFFILM Festival
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SUMMARY:Give Me the Ball!
DESCRIPTION:Billie Jean King changed the game of tennis — on the court and across sports culture. Liz Garbus and Elizabeth Wolff’s documentary presents the legend in full\, combining rare archival footage with candid interviews to reveal the human behind the icon. King’s groundbreaking fight for equity in professional women’s sports came at personal cost: hiding her sexual orientation\, struggling with eating disorders\, and subordinating her own well-being to advance the cause. The filmmakers capture both her indelible victories and the challenges she endured with clarity and immediacy\, presenting a portrait that is as fierce and uncompromising as King herself. Told in her own words\, Give Me the Ball! is a vivid\, electrifying meditation on competition\, courage\, and the transformative power of one fiercely determined individual. —Jessie Fairbanks
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/give-me-the-ball/
LOCATION:Premier Theater at One Letterman\, 1 Letterman Dr # B\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94129\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 SFFILM Festival
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SUMMARY:Bad Blood
DESCRIPTION:This stunning film by Leos Carax has earned him comparisons with such virtuoso filmmakers as David Lynch and Martin Scorsese. Awarded France’s Prix Delluc as Best Film of 1986\, it more than confirms the promise of Boy Meets Girl (The Festival 1985)\, made when he was only 24. Like Godard’s Pierrot le Fou\, Bad Blood’s poetic fireworks are suspended from a noir-ish plot involving a robbery and a doomed love triangle. Declaring its passion for cinema with every frame\, the film recalls the best New Wave films of the 1960s but is firmly rooted in a palpable love of working with actors. And Carax is rewarded by magnificent performances from his central trio—Denis Lavant\, the versatile mime introduced in Boy Meets Girl\, Juliette Binoche (star of Philip Kaufman’s forthcoming film of Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being) and veteran character actor Michel Piccoli. The camerawork of Jean-Yves Escoffier is nothing short of dazzling. —Peter Scarlet \nStar Juliette Binoche attended the 1987 Festival screening. \nFilms from the Vault revisits previously presented titles at the San Francisco International Film Festival\, highlighting the Festival’s role in championing emerging artists and iconic auteurs and inviting audiences to rediscover these films anew. – Jessie Fairbanks
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/bad-blood/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 SFFILM Festival
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