• Tuner

    Premier Theater at One Letterman 1 Letterman Dr # B, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Academy Award®–winning director Daniel Roher (Navalny, Festival 2022) makes a striking leap into narrative filmmaking with this stylish, genre-bending thriller. Leo Woodall plays Niki, a meticulous piano tuner whose hypersensitive […]

  • Risa and the Wind Phone

    BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    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 […]

  • A Sad and Beautiful World

    Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Ambitious and emotionally potent, Cyril Aris’s drama explores one couple’s romantic travails with three tumultuous decades of Lebanese history as the backdrop. Since childhood, Nino and Yasmina have had a […]

  • Daughters of the Forest: Mycelium Chronicles

    Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Tangled networks spread through the forest floor, connecting plants, humans, and fungi in an inseparable web of coexistence. In the forests of Mexico, mycologists Eliseete and Julieta are working to […]

  • The Oldest Person in the World + Paper Trail

    Premier Theater at One Letterman 1 Letterman Dr # B, San Francisco, CA, United States

    For over a decade, SFFILM mainstay Sam Green (Utopia in Four Movements, Festival 2010; 32 Sounds, Festival 2022) tenaciously documents the world’s oldest person, as determined by the Guinness Book […]

  • Time and Water

    BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    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 […]

  • The Queen and the Smokehouse

    Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    In the Polish seaside town of Łeba, a kingdom rests upon plates of smoked cod, mackerel, halibut, and salmon. The picturesque beaches are one tourist draw; the town’s smokehouse is […]

  • Nuisance Bear

    Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    A yearling polar bear is smart enough to beat a bear trap, but is he wise enough to survive the world of humans? That is a question that hovers over […]

  • Sloan Science on Screen Award: Silent Friend

    Premier Theater at One Letterman 1 Letterman Dr # B, San Francisco, CA, United States

    On the cusp of the Covid-19 pandemic, Tony (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), a Hong Kong neuroscientist conducting research at a German university, observes a botanical garden’s ancient gingko tree one lonesome […]

  • The World of Love

    BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    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 Jang Hye-jin), or sharing […]

  • It Would Be Night in Caracas

    Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    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, […]

  • Two Pianos

    Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Arnaud Desplechin returns to SFFILM with his high-pitched drama set in the world of concert pianists. Tempestuous Matthias (François Civil) returns to Lyon from a tour in Japan, and reconnects […]