Filipiñana
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 […]
12 events found.
Events
-
-
BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States
-
American Doctor
Premier Theater at One Letterman 1 Letterman Dr # B, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn 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 […]
-
The Fox King
Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesAmir 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 StatesRamzi 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 StatesChange 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 StatesJoin 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 StatesCao 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 StatesWithin 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 StatesTraverse 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 StatesMusic + 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 StatesAgricultural 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 […]
-
Salvation
Premier Theater at One Letterman 1 Letterman Dr # B, San Francisco, CA, United StatesWinner 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. In the unnamed community, two tribes clash over land and the right to harvest it. Mesut, haunted by troubling dreams he believes are prophetic, stakes […]