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  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Elder Son

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

    “Where are you from?” That question asked of native-born Argentinian teenager Lila (Anita B. Queen), whose parents immigrated from Korea, hovers over Cecilia Kang’s remarkable drama inspired by her own […]

  • Still Playing + The Curfew + Nava

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

    Three protagonists and their quietly courageous gestures of resilience weave together a cinematic journey across the world. Documenting a father’s struggle in Palestine, a woman’s fateful return to Iran, and […]

  • Salvation

    BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Winner 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. […]