• Salvation

    BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Winner of the Berlinale’s Silver Bear, Emin Alper’s (Frenzy, Festival 2016) electrifying drama of power struggles in a Turkish mountain village exposes the chaos that erupts when territorialism takes root. […]

  • How to Clean a House in 10 Easy Steps

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

    Family separation defined the childhood of filmmaker Carolina Gonzalez Valencia, whose mother Beatriz moved to the US from Colombia to provide for her children by working as a domestic house […]

  • Shorts Block 2: Under Pressure

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

    Pressure builds quietly before it breaks. Across cultures, five individuals confront the forces pressing in on their lives, reflecting the fault lines shaping women’s place in the world today. A […]

  • Memory of Princess Mumbi

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

    With Memory of Princess Mumbi, Swiss-Kenyan filmmaker Damien Hauser delivers a dazzling film set in the future but pertinent to today. A war fought over addictive technology leads to its […]

  • Filipiñana

    BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Isabel is a newly hired ball girl at a pristine golf course on Manila’s outskirts. An Ilokana from rural northern Philippines, she immediately feels out of place among the high-status […]

  • The Fox King

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

    Amir and Ali are twins reeling from their mother’s death in childbirth. Plus, their deadbeat dad won’t let the boys stay with him, so they work for the owner of […]

  • American Doctor

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

    In American Doctor, filmmaker Poh Si Teng follows three US physicians—Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—striving to alleviate suffering in Gaza as the war shatters its medical infrastructure. What begins as an […]

  • Hot Water

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

    Ramzi Bashour’s poignant road movie depicts an anxious mother transporting her delinquent son from Indiana to California, highlighting the glories of the American Midwest while unpacking the dynamics of parenting […]

  • One in a Million

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

    Change unfolds swiftly and powerfully in this intimate, decade-spanning portrait of Syrian refugee Israa and her family as they navigate life across multiple countries. In 2015, directors Itab Azzam and […]

  • Teen Filmmaking Workshop: Collaboration & Creativity

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

    Join director duo and multi-disciplinary artists Jess X. Snow (Roots That Reach Toward the Sky, Festival 2025) and Ashima Shiraishi, for a filmmaking workshop for teens focused on collaboration and […]

  • Hair, Paper, Water…

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

  • Jaripeo + Born at Night

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

    Within the world of bucking broncos and bull rides of the Michoacán jaripeo lurks a partially obscured world where queerness, masculinity, and desire churn together in a generative friction. This […]