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  • 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 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 […]

  • 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 connection. The former loses his parents to a car accident while the latter feels her world shaken by the separation of hers. Flash forward, and […]

  • 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 document and preserve their communities’ long-held symbiosis with the mushrooms that grow around them, a project grown more urgent in the face of continued environmental […]

  • 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 of World Records. Traveling the globe, Green interviews each new record holder as the title passes. What begins as a simple premise evolves into a […]

  • 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 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 […]

  • 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 another, overseen by Leba’s undisputed queen, Meicia. This delightful documentary follows her as she spends her summer days managing her business, serving her customers, and […]

  • 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 this Sundance grand jury documentary prize winner that follows the animal between Churchill, Manitoba, and Arviat, Nunavut. The small communities depend on bears like the […]

  • 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 and chilly evening. The mysterious arboreal entity enchants him, leading him to a synthesis between scientific pursuit and the beauty of nature. Tony is not […]

  • 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 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 […]

  • 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, 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 […]