• Enough Is Enough

    BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Arriving fresh from it’s World Premiere at Berlinale, this documentary is a rare window into the Kivu War. Enough Is Enough follows Congolese filmmaker Elisé Sawasawa, whose displacement and refugee […]

  • Those Who Whistle After Dark

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

    In Pinar Yorgancıoğlu’s atmospheric and darkly humorous tale, recently retired Melih struggles to find purpose in his post-career life. He jostles for his family’s attention while slowly preparing his late […]

  • The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford

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

    In a windswept Scottish village, widower Kenneth (Peter Mullan) takes pride in his role as the local history guide, donning period costume to honor his claimed ancestor, Sir Douglas Weatherford, […]

  • Shorts Block 4: Shades of Menace

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

    In the absence of love, menace takes shape. Six sinister stories invite viewers on a journey from the familiar corners of homes and highways to darker and more treacherous places […]

  • POV Award: Lynne Sachs + Every Contact Leaves a Trace

    BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    In forensic science, “trace” is the material left behind at crime scenes: fibers, gunshot residue, and other evidence that detectives use as they develop suspects and leads. SFFILM Persistence of […]

  • Blue Heron

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

  • Cronos

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

    Cronos is a vampire movie with a Latin American twist as director/writer Guillermo del Toro gets to the heart of the eternal myth in Mexican style. The tale begins in 1536, when an alchemist, fleeing the Inquisition, arrives in Veracruz with a fantastic invention that prolongs and regenerates life. Almost 500 years later, the Cronos […]

  • Lost Land

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

    Nine-year-old Somira and her younger brother Shafi are the focus of this moving drama that follows the Rohingya siblings as they journey from a refugee camp in Bangladesh to a […]

  • Sloan Science on Screen Award: Silent Friend

    BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, 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 Arch

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

    The Arch is reminiscent of a classical story in the Ibsen or Jamesian mode—in an 18th-century village, a proud widow, Madam Tung, has allowed herself to be treated almost as a deity because of her virtuous behavior. When a troop of soldiers arrive to protect the farmers from bandits, the villagers believe this is a […]

  • Mel Novikoff Award: Michelle Satter + Beasts of the Southern Wild

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

    Below the levee, the Bathtub exists as a tightknit community unto itself, practically a separate nation from Louisiana and the rest of the United States. There, six-year-old Hushpuppy (Oscar® Best […]

  • The Son and the Sea

    BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    British writer/director Stroma Cairns makes a resonant feature debut with this coming-of-age drama focused on a young man trying to find his place in the world. The film is a family affair as Cairns collaborated on the screenplay with her mother Imogen West and cast as the tempestuous protagonist her brother Jonah West. In his […]