Member Mixer + Festival Preview
Members of SFFILM and The JCCSF will be treated to a special preview of the 69th San Francisco International Film Festival lineup. Following a welcome reception, SFFILM’s Programming Team will […]
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Jewish Community Center of San Francisco 3200 California St, San Francisco, CA, United States
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Opening Night: Late Fame
Castro Theatre 429 Castro St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThe latest feature from Kent Jones (former director of the New York Film Festival) is a gently piercing dramedy about ambition, obscurity, and the echoes of youthful dreams. Ed Saxberger (a beautifully restrained Willem Dafoe) once arrived in New York determined to be a poet, publishing a slim volume before settling into the quiet routines […]
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Opening Night: The Invite
Castro Theatre 429 Castro St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesNothing is off limits in Olivia Wilde’s (Booksmart, Festival 2019) taboo-smashing third feature where two San Francisco couples find themselves traversing surprising boundaries of intimacy and relationships. When his wife Angela (Wilde) informs Joe (Seth Rogan) that she has invited their upstairs neighbors Pina (Penelope Cruz) and Hawk (Edward Norton) to dinner, he smolders with […]
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Shorts Block 5: Family Films
Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesFrom 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 […]
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Renoir
BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesSet 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 […]
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The Wages of Fear
Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesStranded 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 […]
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Time and Water
Premier Theater at One Letterman 1 Letterman Dr # B, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIcelandic 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 […]
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Hair, Paper, Water…
BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesCao 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 […]
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The World of Love
Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesBoisterous, 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 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 […]
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Risa and the Wind Phone
Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesAn 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 […]
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Joybubbles
Premier Theater at One Letterman 1 Letterman Dr # B, San Francisco, CA, United StatesAn 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 […]
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Blue Heron
BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesA 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 […]