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SUMMARY:Time and Water
DESCRIPTION:Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason faces an unthinkable task: composing the eulogy for Okjökull\, the first glacier declared dead due to climate change. In Sara Dosa’s (Fire of Love\, Festival 2022) luminous documentary\, Magnason confronts the disappearance of his country’s ice while preserving the stories of his grandparents\, intertwining personal history with vanishing landscapes. Drawing from home movies\, photographs\, songs\, and folklore\, Dosa constructs an immersive portrait of loss and continuity. Moving seamlessly between intimate recollections and the monumental sweep of glaciers over millennia\, Time and Water is a visually striking meditation on vulnerability\, charting the fragility of the natural world and the urgent need to bear witness before vital elements of it disappear. —Jessie Fairbanks
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/time-and-water/
LOCATION:Premier Theater at One Letterman\, 1 Letterman Dr # B\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94129\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hair\, Paper\, Water…
DESCRIPTION:Cao 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 wisdom she imparts. As a storyteller and one of the few remaining indigenous Rục people\, Hậu is the keeper of memories and knowledge. She is the steward of a fast-disappearing language\, and it is her duty to fill the lives of her descendants with her words as she prepares to answer that last call from the faraway cave. Using Bolex cameras and a lush sound design\, filmmakers Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quy deliver a visual treat along with an invitation to enter Hậu’s extraordinary world. —Bedatri Choudhury
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/hair-paper-water/
LOCATION:BAMPFA\, 2155 Center Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:The World of Love
DESCRIPTION:Boisterous\, mischievous\, and seemingly unassailable\, Lee Joo-in is the master of her world. Whether dancing with classmates\, sparring with her charismatic brother and devoted mother (Parasite’s Jang Hye-jin)\, or sharing tender moments with her boyfriend\, Joo-in’s life appears in harmony. That balance shatters after a public confrontation and a series of unsettling anonymous messages compel her to confront difficult truths long buried. Bong Joon-ho hails director Yoon Ga-eun as a master at eliciting extraordinary performances from child actors\, exemplified in newcomer Seo Su-bin’s achingly tender and multifaceted portrayal of Joo-in. The World of Love further establishes Yoon as one of the most exciting emerging voices in contemporary Korean cinema. —Jordan Klein
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/the-world-of-love/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
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SUMMARY:Risa and the Wind Phone
DESCRIPTION:An abandoned telephone booth calls out to 10-year-old Risa. After a tragic fire devastates their small town\, residents take to calling the dead on an out-of-order telephone high atop a hill. But only Risa can hear the voices from the other side. Hoping to finally contact her mysterious father somewhere in this crowd of impatient spirits\, she starts to take on the unfinished business of departed loved ones. Continuing a game of chess\, locating life insurance policies\, and finding a new home for a lost dog all become part of Risa’s daily to-do list. What starts as a simple set of tasks aided by a well-meaning neighbor\, turns into a life-defining search for love and acceptance in this charming storybook romp from acclaimed director Juan Cabral. –Amber Love
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/risa-and-the-wind-phone/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
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SUMMARY:Joybubbles
DESCRIPTION:An extraordinary man deserves an extraordinary documentary\, and director Rachael J. Morrison delivers exactly that with this lively portrait of Josef Carl Engressia\, also known as Joybubbles. In the era of analog telephones\, when long-distance calls were prohibitively expensive\, Engressia—born blind and gifted with perfect pitch—discovered he could whistle the precise tones that unlocked the phone network\, allowing him to place free calls around the world. His unusual talent as one of the earliest “phone phreaks” brought both notoriety and an arrest. Yet Joybubbles’ greatest gift was his desire for connection. Later in life\, he created whimsical recorded stories that anyone could access by phone\, forming lasting friendships and taking calls from anyone who reached out. The film uses archival footage\, audio interviews\, and poppy graphics to capture the whimsy and ingenuity of Joybubbles’ life. He was a man who lived to bring happiness to the world. He is still doing it through this irresistible film. —Pam Grady
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/joybubbles/
LOCATION:Premier Theater at One Letterman\, 1 Letterman Dr # B\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94129\, United States
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SUMMARY:Blue Heron
DESCRIPTION: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 family emigrated from Hungary to Vancouver Island in the 1990s. Life there is pretty bucolic—outdoor swims\, watching cartoons—but there are outbursts of increasingly odd\, antisocial behavior from her older brother Jeremy. Sasha takes these moments in stride but notes her parents’ conversations in their native tongue that suggest something more serious and worrisome is happening. Director Sophy Romvari captures the sights and sounds of adolescence impeccably and\, when the film employs a brave narrative gambit around its halfway point\, she ineffably delineates the blur of memory and the tragic inability to avert crisis where one’s personal history is concerned. The extremely intentional camerawork by Maya Bankovic is vibrant but unobtrusive\, observing the family (and especially Sasha) with a gentle but probing eye. —Rod Armstrong
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/blue-heron/
LOCATION:BAMPFA\, 2155 Center Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cookie Queens
DESCRIPTION:Ara\, Shannon Elizabeth\, Nikki\, and Olive live by the mantra\, “Sell! Sell! Sell!” Each Girl Scout in this diverse group has her own sales goal to reach or maybe even surpass during the short cookie-selling season. The race to become the Cookie Queen is not for the faint of the heart with a surprising amount of money and rewards like summer camp and European trips on the line. In between lugging wagons piled high with boxes across town and weekends spent manning cookie booths\, the girls find themselves pulled between their ambition to succeed and the desire to just be a kid and play. This adorable coming-of-age story—a Sundance hit—follows the highs and lows of a single season\, illuminating both the pressures of entrepreneurship at such a young age\, and the empowerment of nurturing their aspirations. —Amber Love
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/cookie-queens/
LOCATION:Premier Theater at One Letterman\, 1 Letterman Dr # B\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94129\, United States
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SUMMARY:If I Go Will They Miss Me
DESCRIPTION:Walter Thompson-Hernández’s stunning feature debut is a coming-of-age story set in South Los Angeles\, blending social and magical realism\, Greek mythology\, and vérité observation into a poetic reflection on family\, legacy\, and dreams. Adapted from the writer-director’s acclaimed short\, the film follows 12-year-old Lil Ant\, a sensitive\, artistic boy navigating life in the shadow of his father\, Big Ant\, recently released from prison. The filmmaker charts the emotional journey of father and son as they struggle to reconnect\, balancing youthful imagination with the rhythms of their neighborhood. A cast of nonprofessional actors join Danielle Brooks and J. Alphonse Nicholson\, bringing raw immediacy to Thompson-Hernández’s vivid narrative. Streets and alleys become spaces of discovery\, offering a tender\, inventive portrait of adolescence and the fragile bonds that anchor us to family\, community\, and inheritance. —Jessie Fairbanks
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/if-i-go-will-they-miss-me/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost School
DESCRIPTION:For many kids\, the idea of never having to go to school again may seem like a dream come true\, but 10-year-old Rabia (Nazualiya Arsalan) loves learning. Despite growing up in rural Pakistan\, where educating girls is not much of a priority\, the child eagerly attends to feed her endless curiosity. But then her school shuts down suddenly\, supposedly because the teacher became possessed by an evil spirit. Rabia is not convinced and when her mother lacks clear answers\, the determined girl sets out to uncover the truth. Undeterred by eerie occurrences\, she finds a web of patriarchy\, bureaucracy\, and corruption responsible for the closure not just of her school but of others like it. Wrapped in a children’s fable\, Ghost School paints a bleak picture of a society that ignores its daughters\, leavened by Rabia’s unrelenting determination that shines through like a beacon. —Bedatri Choudhury
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/ghost-school/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 SFFILM Festival
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SUMMARY:It Would Be Night in Caracas
DESCRIPTION:The lawlessness afoot in Venezuela’s capital city is vibrantly captured in this gripping adaptation of Karina Sainz Borgo’s novel by the filmmaking team behind Bad Hair (Festival 2014). It’s 2017\, and Adelaida (Natalia Reyes) returns to Caracas to bury her mother and finds a metropolis teeming with chaos. While she huddles in the apartment she shared with her mom\, memories of childhood and a doomed romance as a young adult flood back in flashbacks. Leaving one day for a brief foray for supplies\, she returns to the building and finds the flat forcibly occupied by armed members of the resistance. Relocating into the abandoned apartment of a neighbor\, she also rescues Santiago\, a former colleague who has been jailed\, and they shelter together to plan next steps. With violence at their doorstep\, Adelaida and Santiago must attempt to escape from a building (and a city) that holds them captive. —Rod Armstrong
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/it-would-be-night-in-caracas/
LOCATION:BAMPFA\, 2155 Center Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sender
DESCRIPTION:Severance’s Britt Lower stars as Julia\, a young woman whose online shopping habit takes an alarming turn in this quirky thriller. Fired three weeks ago and now three weeks sober\, Julia fills her endless days with internet buying sprees. But then boxes start to arrive that contain uncomfortably personal items that she didn’t order. Enlisting the help of delivery driver Charlie (David Dastmalchian)\, Julia tries desperately to discover who the sender is\, and how whoever it is could know her exact shade of lipstick. The search sends her spiraling down a paranoid rabbit hole\, as the packages keep piling up. Russell Goldman’s debut feature\, produced by Sender costar Jamie Lee Curtis\, is a wildly imaginative send-up of our infatuation with online shopping and a disturbing commentary on what can happen when personal details become company knowledge. Rhea Seahorn also stars. —Amber Love
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/sender/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
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SUMMARY:Give Me the Ball!
DESCRIPTION:Billie Jean King changed the game of tennis — on the court and across sports culture. Liz Garbus and Elizabeth Wolff’s documentary presents the legend in full\, combining rare archival footage with candid interviews to reveal the human behind the icon. King’s groundbreaking fight for equity in professional women’s sports came at personal cost: hiding her sexual orientation\, struggling with eating disorders\, and subordinating her own well-being to advance the cause. The filmmakers capture both her indelible victories and the challenges she endured with clarity and immediacy\, presenting a portrait that is as fierce and uncompromising as King herself. Told in her own words\, Give Me the Ball! is a vivid\, electrifying meditation on competition\, courage\, and the transformative power of one fiercely determined individual. —Jessie Fairbanks
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/give-me-the-ball/
LOCATION:Premier Theater at One Letterman\, 1 Letterman Dr # B\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94129\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bad Blood
DESCRIPTION:This stunning film by Leos Carax has earned him comparisons with such virtuoso filmmakers as David Lynch and Martin Scorsese. Awarded France’s Prix Delluc as Best Film of 1986\, it more than confirms the promise of Boy Meets Girl (The Festival 1985)\, made when he was only 24. Like Godard’s Pierrot le Fou\, Bad Blood’s poetic fireworks are suspended from a noir-ish plot involving a robbery and a doomed love triangle. Declaring its passion for cinema with every frame\, the film recalls the best New Wave films of the 1960s but is firmly rooted in a palpable love of working with actors. And Carax is rewarded by magnificent performances from his central trio—Denis Lavant\, the versatile mime introduced in Boy Meets Girl\, Juliette Binoche (star of Philip Kaufman’s forthcoming film of Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being) and veteran character actor Michel Piccoli. The camerawork of Jean-Yves Escoffier is nothing short of dazzling. —Peter Scarlet \nStar Juliette Binoche attended the 1987 Festival screening. \nFilms from the Vault revisits previously presented titles at the San Francisco International Film Festival\, highlighting the Festival’s role in championing emerging artists and iconic auteurs and inviting audiences to rediscover these films anew. – Jessie Fairbanks
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/bad-blood/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
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SUMMARY:Shorts Block 6: Youth Works
DESCRIPTION:Young filmmakers from across the globe showcase their daring creativity and craft in this collection of films that address the complexity of growing up and the innocence of youth. Employing animation\, narrative\, and documentary\, these shorts embrace emotion\, curiosity\, and risk-taking to experience the fullness of life. Among the films are a vivid hand-drawn animation ode to ‘80s culture\, a tale of effortlessly composed charm in the French countryside\, a short demonstrating art as a form of healing after disaster\, and a story expressing the power of never giving up on your dreams. Let us introduce you to the next generation of storytellers. —Soph Schultz Rocha \nRecommended for ages 11 and up. Films are in alphabetical order rather than order of play. Total runtime 74 min \nCindy Undead\n\nMariella Gutiérrez (USA 2025\, 3 min)\n\nMysterious and sensational ’80s supermodel Cindy Devereux reaches a breaking point when she can no longer keep herself sewn together. \nDandelion Child\n\nIsabella Montesi (USA 2025\, 6 min)\n\nA daughter moves into her freshman college dorm\, parting ways with her mother and recalling their precious years spent together. \nFishbowl\n\nHana Taylor (USA 2025\, 8 min)\n\nA young artist\, eager to win the top prize for her aquatic painting\, buys a fish for inspiration that might just help break her creative block. \nLittle Things\n\nNoam Rignault Clement (France\, Spain\, USA 2026\, 6 min)\n\nTaking his mother’s advice to enjoy the little things in life\, a nine-year-old boy in the charming French countryside embarks with a stolen garden gnome on an inquisitive quest to find just that. \nOut of the Blue\n\nVivian Nguyen (USA 2026\, 3 min)\n\nA lonely grocery store cashier daydreams of true love at the checkout counter. \nPaper Boat\n\nYeobin Park (South Korea 2025\, 10 min)\n\nTwo siblings bond by floating paper boats down a tranquil stream as their family life begins to crack. \nRewinded\n\nAaliyah Idrissa (USA 2025\, 7 min)\n\nA Black woman who gave up on her science dreams as a teen gets a second chance when she unexpectedly time-travels to the ’90s to live one day with her younger self. \nRising Above the Ashes\n\nCade Savage Schwartz (USA 2025\, 15 min)\n\nIn the aftermath of the devastating LA fires\, community members and artists express their resilience and offer ways to heal together after disaster. \nSonder\n\nLancey Quan (USA 2025\, 9 min)\n\nSeven poetic stories of belonging and growing up\, told through seven colors\, encompass shifting perspectives and landscapes. \nTropical Fish\n\nShirley Xie (China 2025\, 7 min)\n\nYoung Xiao Su has one big wish\, to see the tropical fish by the sea. With his best friend\, the two go on an arduous journey to turn this dream into a reality.
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/shorts-block-6-youth-works/
LOCATION:Premier Theater at One Letterman\, 1 Letterman Dr # B\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94129\, United States
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SUMMARY:Yo (Love Is a Rebellious Bird)
DESCRIPTION: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 life. That documentation became a broader project through which Fitch processed her grief as she crafted a meticulous miniature recreation of the home where Yo spent her final years. In Yo (Love Is a Rebellious Bird)\, Fitch and co-director Banker White meld together Fitch’s cherished vérité footage with stunning puppet recreations and the miniature home to memorialize Yo in all her highs and lows. By harnessing the craft of puppetry to explore Yo’s life in Switzerland\, her struggles with motherhood\, and experiences with aging on her own terms\, this hybrid documentary becomes a whimsical record of friendship and the love that bloomed between Fitch and Yo. —Amber Love
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/yo-love-is-a-rebellious-bird/
LOCATION:BAMPFA\, 2155 Center Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:Vagabond
DESCRIPTION:Agnès Varda’s new film\, which not only won Venice’s Golden Lion but the awards of the international critics as well\, has echoes of her earlier work\, Cleo from 5 to 7 and also recalls Alain Tanner’s superb Messidor. Its central character\, beautifully played by Sandrine Bonnaire\, is a young drop-out who roams a wintry south of France with a knapsack containing a tent on her back. She sleeps and eats where she can\, a fiercely independent character little understood by even those who know her best. What she seeks is freedom\, and her tragedy is that society extracts from her too great a price for it. Varda tells her story with a strong and simple eloquence that is very moving\, and searches not so much for explanations as for emotional understanding. This is a film of considerable resonance precisely because it seeks neither to praise nor condemn\, but to comprehend a profound alienation. —Derek Malcolm \nVagabond screened at the 1985 Festival with Agnès Varda in attendance. \nFilms from the Vault revisits previously presented titles at the San Francisco International Film Festival\, highlighting the Festival’s role in championing emerging artists and iconic auteurs and inviting audiences to rediscover these films anew. —Jessie Fairbanks
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/vagabond/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
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SUMMARY:Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story
DESCRIPTION:For photographer Kwame Brathwaite\, the camera served as an instrument of love for his people. From capturing the mirth flowing through the streets of 1960s Harlem to following the Jackson 5 on a tour of Africa\, Brathwaite chronicled Black America in all its glory. It was Brathwaite along with his brother Elombe Brath who coined the now ubiquitous phrase\, “Black is Beautiful.” Somewhere along the way\, his grand achievements faded into a forgotten past until his family fought to resurrect his legacy and restore his place in the African American canon. His photographs—now collected by the likes of Gabrielle Union\, Jesse Williams\, and Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz—are not just reflections of Black joy but serve as a defiant insistence on the beauty that is inherent in Black lives and experiences. Yemi Bemiro’s enthralling documentary celebrates Brathwaite’s life\, art\, and his monumental contribution to Black history. —Bedatri Choudhury
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/black-is-beautiful-the-kwame-brathwaite-story/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tuner
DESCRIPTION:Academy Award®–winning director Daniel Roher (Navalny\, Festival 2022) makes a striking leap into narrative filmmaking with this stylish\, genre-bending thriller. Leo Woodall plays Niki\, a meticulous piano tuner whose hypersensitive hearing makes the world painfully loud—but also gives him an uncanny ability to detect the inner workings of locks. His quiet life tuning pianos across New York alongside his mentor\, played with wry warmth by Dustin Hoffman\, takes an unexpected turn when Niki’s rare talent draws the attention of criminals eager to exploit it. As he becomes entangled in increasingly dangerous safecracking jobs\, a tentative romance with a music student (Havana Rose Liu) presents another path. Propelled by inventive sound design and sharp performances\, Tuner blends crime caper\, romance\, and character study into a tense\, darkly funny exploration of talent\, temptation\, and the fragile line between survival and self-destruction. —Jessie Fairbanks
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/tuner/
LOCATION:Premier Theater at One Letterman\, 1 Letterman Dr # B\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94129\, United States
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SUMMARY:Risa and the Wind Phone
DESCRIPTION:An abandoned telephone booth calls out to 10-year-old Risa. After a tragic fire devastates their small town\, residents take to calling the dead on an out-of-order telephone high atop a hill. But only Risa can hear the voices from the other side. Hoping to finally contact her mysterious father somewhere in this crowd of impatient spirits\, she starts to take on the unfinished business of departed loved ones. Continuing a game of chess\, locating life insurance policies\, and finding a new home for a lost dog all become part of Risa’s daily to-do list. What starts as a simple set of tasks aided by a well-meaning neighbor\, turns into a life-defining search for love and acceptance in this charming storybook romp from acclaimed director Juan Cabral. –Amber Love
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/risa-and-the-wind-phone-2/
LOCATION:BAMPFA\, 2155 Center Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Sad and Beautiful World
DESCRIPTION:Ambitious and emotionally potent\, Cyril Aris’s drama explores one couple’s romantic travails with three tumultuous decades of Lebanese history as the backdrop. Since childhood\, Nino and Yasmina have had a connection. The former loses his parents to a car accident while the latter feels her world shaken by the separation of hers. Flash forward\, and a car crash of a different sort reunites the two as young adults and their bond rekindles. In the final period\, Nino’s optimism clashes with Yasmina’s more realistic outlook as they discuss children and whether or not to leave the country they love but that is riven by conflict and economic uncertainty. The filmmaking is dynamic\, employing various techniques to convey the swirl of life and love in a volatile world while the two lead actors share a big-hearted chemistry amid the challenges Nino and Yasmina face. —Rod Armstrong
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/a-sad-and-beautiful-world/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
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SUMMARY:Daughters of the Forest: Mycelium Chronicles
DESCRIPTION:Tangled networks spread through the forest floor\, connecting plants\, humans\, and fungi in an inseparable web of coexistence. In the forests of Mexico\, mycologists Eliseete and Julieta are working to document and preserve their communities’ long-held symbiosis with the mushrooms that grow around them\, a project grown more urgent in the face of continued environmental destruction and cultural loss. From decay comes life\, and in this debut feature\, director Otilia Portillo Padua weaves together the scientists’ hopes\, dreams\, and work with immersive interludes that dive into the depths of the forest to give voice to the mushrooms themselves. Through this dreamlike meditation on interconnectedness and shared fates that occupies a unique space between documentary and science fiction\, Daughters of the Forest: Mycelium Chronicles presents not a story of devastation\, but an attainable dream of a more thriving future. —Amber Love
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/daughters-of-the-forest-mycelium-chronicles/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 SFFILM Festival
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SUMMARY:The Oldest Person in the World + Paper Trail
DESCRIPTION:For over a decade\, SFFILM mainstay Sam Green (Utopia in Four Movements\, Festival 2010; 32 Sounds\, Festival 2022) tenaciously documents the world’s oldest person\, as determined by the Guinness Book of World Records. Traveling the globe\, Green interviews each new record holder as the title passes. What begins as a simple premise evolves into a profoundly personal reflection on witnessing extraordinary lives. Green narrates moments from his subjects’ experiences alongside his own\, offering a window into human endurance and the passage of time. As Green’s life evolves in parallel\, the question expands: who will be the next record holder\, and what drives the desire to document them at all? The result is an essayistic rumination on life’s extremes: death\, birth\, and the constant nature of change. —Amber Love \nThe Oldest Person in the World will be preceded by the short film Paper Trail\, directed by Don Hertzfeldt (USA 2026\, 14 min).\nFestival alumni and Oscar® nominee Don Hertzfeldt brings beautifully tactile animation and rich sound design to Paper Trail\, tracing the span of a life through the literal marks we leave behind.
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/the-oldest-person-in-the-world-paper-trail/
LOCATION:Premier Theater at One Letterman\, 1 Letterman Dr # B\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94129\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 SFFILM Festival
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SUMMARY:Time and Water
DESCRIPTION:Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason faces an unthinkable task: composing the eulogy for Okjökull\, the first glacier declared dead due to climate change. In Sara Dosa’s (Fire of Love\, Festival 2022) luminous documentary\, Magnason confronts the disappearance of his country’s ice while preserving the stories of his grandparents\, intertwining personal history with vanishing landscapes. Drawing from home movies\, photographs\, songs\, and folklore\, Dosa constructs an immersive portrait of loss and continuity. Moving seamlessly between intimate recollections and the monumental sweep of glaciers over millennia\, Time and Water is a visually striking meditation on vulnerability\, charting the fragility of the natural world and the urgent need to bear witness before vital elements of it disappear. —Jessie Fairbanks
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/time-and-water-2/
LOCATION:BAMPFA\, 2155 Center Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 SFFILM Festival
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SUMMARY:The Queen and the Smokehouse
DESCRIPTION:In the Polish seaside town of Łeba\, a kingdom rests upon plates of smoked cod\, mackerel\, halibut\, and salmon. The picturesque beaches are one tourist draw; the town’s smokehouse is another\, overseen by Leba’s undisputed queen\, Meicia. This delightful documentary follows her as she spends her summer days managing her business\, serving her customers\, and bringing together a group of employees who adore her immensely and fear her slightly. What Meicia has built over the decades is not just a beloved institution but a quiet matriarchy of sorts\, a tight ship run by a woman who has spent her life bringing people the joy of a perfectly smoked meal. But now\, Melicia is at a crossroads as her health is failing\, and she begins to look back at her life and reckon with her legacy. —Bedatri Choudhury
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/the-queen-and-the-smokehouse/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nuisance Bear
DESCRIPTION:A yearling polar bear is smart enough to beat a bear trap\, but is he wise enough to survive the world of humans? That is a question that hovers over this Sundance grand jury documentary prize winner that follows the animal between Churchill\, Manitoba\, and Arviat\, Nunavut. The small communities depend on bears like the one at the center of the film: Churchill relies on the dollars brought in by tourists eager to commune (at a distance) with the apex predators while Arviat’s Inuit villagers hunt the animals for their meat and skin. As the sea ice that is the marine mammals’ hunting ground shrinks\, they wander into town more frequently searching for food\, endangering both humans and bears. Narrated by Arviat elder Mike Tunalaaq Gibbons\, this immersive\, gorgeously photographed\, and poetic film evolves into a powerful meditation on impacts: of painful history\, climate change\, ursine incursions\, and human interventions. –Pam Grady
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/nuisance-bear/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sloan Science on Screen Award: Silent Friend
DESCRIPTION: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 and chilly evening. The mysterious arboreal entity enchants him\, leading him to a synthesis between scientific pursuit and the beauty of nature. Tony is not the first to feel the pull of that tree\, the quiet and enduring witness to the passage of time and ultimately a leafy companion to people whose connection to the environment is inseparable. Ildikó Enyedi’s ethereal cinematic triumph captures the essence of humanity across more than a century\, a triptych of stories that take place in 1908\, 1972\, and 2020. With a mesmerizing array of cinematographic styles\, Silent Friend creates an evocative portrait of the evolution of intellectual thought and irrepressible curiosities. Léa Seydoux costars. —Jordan Klein
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/sloan-science-on-screen-award-silent-friend/
LOCATION:Premier Theater at One Letterman\, 1 Letterman Dr # B\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94129\, United States
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SUMMARY:The World of Love
DESCRIPTION:Boisterous\, mischievous\, and seemingly unassailable\, Lee Joo-in is the master of her world. Whether dancing with classmates\, sparring with her charismatic brother and devoted mother (Parasite’s Jang Hye-jin)\, or sharing tender moments with her boyfriend\, Joo-in’s life appears in harmony. That balance shatters after a public confrontation and a series of unsettling anonymous messages compel her to confront difficult truths long buried. Bong Joon-ho hails director Yoon Ga-eun as a master at eliciting extraordinary performances from child actors\, exemplified in newcomer Seo Su-bin’s achingly tender and multifaceted portrayal of Joo-in. The World of Love further establishes Yoon as one of the most exciting emerging voices in contemporary Korean cinema. —Jordan Klein
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/the-world-of-love-2/
LOCATION:BAMPFA\, 2155 Center Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:It Would Be Night in Caracas
DESCRIPTION:The lawlessness afoot in Venezuela’s capital city is vibrantly captured in this gripping adaptation of Karina Sainz Borgo’s novel by the filmmaking team behind Bad Hair (Festival 2014). It’s 2017\, and Adelaida (Natalia Reyes) returns to Caracas to bury her mother and finds a metropolis teeming with chaos. While she huddles in the apartment she shared with her mom\, memories of childhood and a doomed romance as a young adult flood back in flashbacks. Leaving one day for a brief foray for supplies\, she returns to the building and finds the flat forcibly occupied by armed members of the resistance. Relocating into the abandoned apartment of a neighbor\, she also rescues Santiago\, a former colleague who has been jailed\, and they shelter together to plan next steps. With violence at their doorstep\, Adelaida and Santiago must attempt to escape from a building (and a city) that holds them captive. —Rod Armstrong
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/it-would-be-night-in-caracas-2/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 SFFILM Festival
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SUMMARY:Two Pianos
DESCRIPTION:Arnaud Desplechin returns to SFFILM with his high-pitched drama set in the world of concert pianists. Tempestuous Matthias (François Civil) returns to Lyon from a tour in Japan\, and reconnects with his mentor Elena (Charlotte Rampling\, at her diva best)\, who plans to retire and hopes they can duet at what will be her final performance. Complicating matters is Matthias’s old flame Claude who is now married to his former best friend and whose child bears more than a passing resemblance to Matthias. Desplechin is a master at tracing fraught personal dynamics\, frequently finding sly humor amid the emotional fireworks\, and his script (written with Kamen Velkovsky) is buoyed by an expert cast. As Matthias wavers between romantic and professional opportunities offered by Claude and Elena\, there is a constant tension over how he will respond to the desires and demands placed on him by these two strong-willed women. —Rod Armstrong
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/two-pianos/
LOCATION:Marina Theatre\, 2149 Chestnut St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 SFFILM Festival
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SUMMARY:Give Me the Ball!
DESCRIPTION:Billie Jean King changed the game of tennis — on the court and across sports culture. Liz Garbus and Elizabeth Wolff’s documentary presents the legend in full\, combining rare archival footage with candid interviews to reveal the human behind the icon. King’s groundbreaking fight for equity in professional women’s sports came at personal cost: hiding her sexual orientation\, struggling with eating disorders\, and subordinating her own well-being to advance the cause. The filmmakers capture both her indelible victories and the challenges she endured with clarity and immediacy\, presenting a portrait that is as fierce and uncompromising as King herself. Told in her own words\, Give Me the Ball! is a vivid\, electrifying meditation on competition\, courage\, and the transformative power of one fiercely determined individual. —Jessie Fairbanks
URL:https://sffilm.org/event/give-me-the-ball-2/
LOCATION:BAMPFA\, 2155 Center Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 SFFILM Festival
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