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  • Member Mixer + Festival Preview

    Jewish Community Center of San Francisco 3200 California St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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 […]

  • Opening Night: Late Fame

    Castro Theatre 429 Castro St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    The 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 […]

  • 69th San Francisco International Film Festival

    TBD

    SAVE THE DATE! The 69th San Francisco International Film Festival returns April 24–May 4, 2026! The SFFILM Festival is the longest-running film festival in the Americas bringing the most innovative […]

  • Opening Night: The Invite

    Castro Theatre 429 Castro St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Nothing 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 […]

  • Shorts Block 5: Family Films

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

    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 […]

  • Renoir

    BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    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 […]

  • The Wages of Fear

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

    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 […]

  • Time and Water

    Premier Theater at One Letterman 1 Letterman Dr # B, San Francisco, 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 […]

  • Hair, Paper, Water…

    BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    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 […]

  • The World of Love

    Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, 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 […]

  • Risa and the Wind Phone

    Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, 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 […]

  • Joybubbles

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

    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 […]

  • Blue Heron

    BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    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 […]

  • If I Go Will They Miss Me

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

    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, […]

  • Cookie Queens

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

    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 […]

  • Ghost School

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

    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 […]

  • It Would Be Night in Caracas

    BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, 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, […]

  • Give Me the Ball!

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

    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 […]

  • Sender

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

    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, […]

  • Bad Blood

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

    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 […]

  • Shorts Block 6: Youth Works

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

    Young filmmakers from across the globe showcase their daring creativity and craft in this collection of films that address the complexity of growing up and the innocence of youth. Employing […]

  • Yo (Love is a Rebellious Bird)

    BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    One of director Anna Fitch’s closest friends, Yo was adventurous, self-assured, and headstrong. Before Yo passed away in 2013, Fitch spent countless hours capturing memories and anecdotes of Yo’s colorful […]

  • Vagabond

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

    Agnès Varda’s new film, which not only won Venice’s Golden Lion but the awards of the international critics as well, has echoes of her earlier work, Cleo from 5 to […]

  • Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story

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

    For photographer Kwame Brathwaite, the camera served as an instrument of love for his people. From capturing the mirth flowing through the streets of 1960s Harlem to following the Jackson […]

  • 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 […]