Yo (Love is a Rebellious Bird)
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 […]
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Premier Theater at One Letterman 1 Letterman Dr # B, San Francisco, CA, United States
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If We Don’t Burn, How Do We Light Up the Night
Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesThe 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 […]
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Space Cadet
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco 3200 California St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesCanadian 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 […]
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Special Screening: The Kidnapping of Arabella
Premier Theater at One Letterman 1 Letterman Dr # B, San Francisco, CA, United StatesSeven-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, […]
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The Son and the Sea
Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesBritish 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 […]
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Broken English
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco 3200 California St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesI 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 […]
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Amílcar
BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, 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 […]
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A Child of My Own
Premier Theater at One Letterman 1 Letterman Dr # B, San Francisco, CA, United StatesBased 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 bold, inventive documentary that fuses dramatized sequences and first-person interviews to examine identity, ambition, and the weight of family pressures. At its center is Alejandra, […]
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Shorts Block 3: Shapes of Love
Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn 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 calls, imagined conversations, home videos, handwritten letters, and stolen glances. Puppeteer Zach Dorn considers CGI-mediated closure in The Sopranos, while Mars Verrone assembles a portrait […]
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Beau Travail
Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesClaire 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 the superfluous French Foreign Legion of 1999. On the African coast, in a nameless country of paradisiacal beauty and hellish poverty, a detachment of legionnaires—all […]
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Special Screening: Power Ballad
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco 3200 California St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesAn 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 quiet life in Ireland. When Danny later adapts a song Rick wrote without permission and it becomes a massive global hit, Rick struggles to convince […]
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The Arch
BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThe 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 a deity because of her virtuous behavior. When a troop of soldiers arrive to protect the farmers from bandits, the villagers believe this is a […]