• 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 […]

  • Renoir

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

    Set in late-80s suburban Tokyo, 11-year-old Fuki is thrust into adolescence by the harsh realities surrounding her parents. Her father Kenji (Lily Franky) is suffering from a terminal illness, and […]

  • Enough Is Enough

    Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, 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

    BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, 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 […]

  • Filipiñana

    Premier Theater at One Letterman 1 Letterman Dr # B, San Francisco, 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 […]

  • Rose of Nevada

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

    George MacKay (1917) and Callum Turner (Masters of Air) star in this eerie drama as Cornish villagers who go to sea on the titular fishing vessel that recently reappeared in […]

  • Ungrateful Beings

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

    David brings his two children on a summer vacation to the Croatian coast in hopes that the rustic camping and sparkling Adriatic Sea will bring his family closer together in […]