Events

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Filters

Changing any of the form inputs will cause the list of events to refresh with the filtered results.

Today

  • 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 […]

  • 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 urgent mission of care becomes a searing confrontation with the limits of neutrality. The doctors shoulder impossible choices, witnessing profound suffering while navigating the dangers […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 and letting go. Layal (Lubna Azabal, radiant) is a tightly wound Lebanese American who teaches Arabic to hapless students. While listening to a meditation program, […]

  • 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 Jacob MacInnes discover the vivacious 11-year-old selling cigarettes on the teeming sidewalks of Izmir, Turkey, where she introduces them to her favorite food vendors 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 creativity through multiple mediums. Recently named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” Jess has written and directed four short films currently […]

  • 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 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 […]

  • 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 evocative documentary carries us on a sensory journey into Central Mexico’s rodeo culture and observes the queer community that embraces and challenges it. Vérité Super […]

  • Shorts Block 1: Human Flow

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

    Traverse cityscapes, valleys, highways, and borders through films by an international ensemble of storytellers. In these vivid portraits of gathering and return, the dialogue between people and land is as alive as human conversation. From an afternoon game of pelote in Belgium to climber Ashima Shiraishi’s meditations in the Payahuunadü valley, movement becomes both medicine […]

  • Mysterious Bird with Musical Performance by Gabriela Quintero featuring Daniel Ho

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

    Music + Film returns to the Festival with the Grammy-winning guitarist Gabriela Quintero, stepping into her first solo spotlight. Beth Aala’s intimate new documentary follows Gaby as she creates her debut solo album, charting a path beyond her global success with Rodrigo y Gabriela. In her hometown of Zihuatanejo, Mexico, the film captures the intersection […]

  • Amílcar

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

    Agricultural engineer Amilcar Cabral (1924–1973) dreamed of freedom for Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde in West Africa and set about making that liberation happen. In this impressionistic documentary, the life of this remarkable revolutionary unfolds through letters Cabral wrote to his wives, set to a soundtrack of slogans and dreams. Shot in 16mm, the film tells […]