• Yo (Love is a Rebellious Bird)

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

    One of director Anna Fitch’s closest friends, Yo was adventurous, self-assured, and headstrong. Before Yo passed away in 2013, Fitch spent countless hours capturing memories and anecdotes of Yo’s colorful […]

  • If We Don’t Burn, How Do We Light Up the Night

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

    The placid surface of a rural Costa Rican town hides a mystery in Kim Torres’s striking debut feature. A newcomer to the village, teenaged Laura (Lara Yuja Mora) takes wary […]

  • Space Cadet

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

    Canadian DJ and multihyphenated artist Kid Koala brings his unique gift for storytelling to a new medium as he makes his directorial debut with this delightful, animated adaptation of his […]

  • Special Screening: The Kidnapping of Arabella

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

    Seven-year-old Arabella (Lucrezia Guglielmino) only wants to go Taco King, not listen to her boring father give a speech (Chris Pine, speaking flawless Italian). Given no choice in the matter, […]

  • The Son and the Sea

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

  • Broken English

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

    I never saw myself as a pop singer,” says Marianne Faithfull in this wonderfully imaginative portrait of the iconic chanteuse that includes her last recorded performance. She’s speaking about her […]

  • Amílcar

    BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, 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 […]

  • A Child of My Own

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

    Based on a true story, A Child of My Own follows a woman so desperate to become a mother that she steals an infant. Director Maite Alberdi returns with a […]

  • Shorts Block 3: Shapes of Love

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

    In stories of queer love, intergenerational love, self-love, and love across borders, filmmakers deftly mediate between intimacy and universality. Seven films weave a fabric of love in many languages: phone […]

  • Beau Travail

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

    Claire Denis adds a new visual dimension to her work with this lyrical adaptation of Herman Melville’s allegorical Billy Budd, which shifts from the battling British navy of 1797 to […]

  • Special Screening: Power Ballad

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

    An unexpected night spent with former boy-band sensation Danny (Nick Jonas) upends the world of wedding singer Rick (Paul Rudd), an American transplant who traded his rock-star ambitions for a […]

  • The Arch

    BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, 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 […]