Week of Events
Monday, April 20, 2026
No events on this day.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
No events on this day.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
No events on this day.
Thursday, April 23, 2026
No events on this day.
Friday, April 24, 2026
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April 24, 2026 –Opening Night: Late Fame
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April 24, 2026 –Opening Night: The Invite
Opening Night: Late Fame
The latest feature from Kent Jones (former director of the New York Film Festival) is a gently piercing dramedy about ambition, obscurity, and the echoes of youthful dreams. Ed Saxberger […]
Opening Night: The Invite
Nothing is off limits in Olivia Wilde’s (Booksmart, Festival 2019) taboo-smashing third feature where two San Francisco couples find themselves traversing surprising boundaries of intimacy and relationships. When his wife […]
Saturday, April 25, 2026
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April 25, 2026 –Shorts Block 5: Family Films
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April 25, 2026 –Renoir
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April 25, 2026 –The Wages of Fear
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April 25, 2026 –Time and Water
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April 25, 2026 –Hair, Paper, Water…
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April 25, 2026 –The World of Love
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April 25, 2026 –Risa and the Wind Phone
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April 25, 2026 –Joybubbles
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April 25, 2026 –Blue Heron
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April 25, 2026 –If I Go Will They Miss Me
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April 25, 2026 –Cookie Queens
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April 25, 2026 –Ghost School
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April 25, 2026 –It Would Be Night in Caracas
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April 25, 2026 –Give Me the Ball!
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April 25, 2026 –Sender
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April 25, 2026 –Bad Blood
Shorts Block 5: Family Films
From intergalactic cardboard adventures to magical whales, stubborn staircases, and unexpected animal mishaps, this delightful collection of short films celebrates imagination, resilience, and the connections that bring us together. Animation […]
Renoir
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 […]
The Wages of Fear
Stranded in South America with no jobs and no money, four men risk their lives for a big payday when they agree to drive two trucks full of nitroglycerine to […]
Time and Water
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 […]
Hair, Paper, Water…
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 […]
The World of Love
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 […]
Risa and the Wind Phone
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 […]
Joybubbles
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 […]
Blue Heron
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 […]
If I Go Will They Miss Me
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, […]
Cookie Queens
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 […]
Ghost School
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 […]
It Would Be Night in Caracas
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, […]
Give Me the Ball!
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 […]
Sender
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, […]
Bad Blood
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 […]
Sunday, April 26, 2026
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April 26, 2026 –Shorts Block 6: Youth Works
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April 26, 2026 –Yo (Love Is a Rebellious Bird)
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April 26, 2026 –Vagabond
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April 26, 2026 –Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story
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April 26, 2026 –Tuner
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April 26, 2026 –Risa and the Wind Phone
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April 26, 2026 –A Sad and Beautiful World
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April 26, 2026 –Daughters of the Forest: Mycelium Chronicles
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April 26, 2026 –The Oldest Person in the World + Paper Trail
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April 26, 2026 –Time and Water
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April 26, 2026 –The Queen and the Smokehouse
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April 26, 2026 –Nuisance Bear
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April 26, 2026 –Sloan Science on Screen Award: Silent Friend
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April 26, 2026 –The World of Love
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April 26, 2026 –It Would Be Night in Caracas
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April 26, 2026 –Two Pianos
Shorts Block 6: Youth Works
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 […]
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 […]
Vagabond
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 […]
Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story
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 […]
Tuner
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 […]
Risa and the Wind Phone
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 […]
A Sad and Beautiful World
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 […]
Daughters of the Forest: Mycelium Chronicles
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 […]
The Oldest Person in the World + Paper Trail
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 […]
Time and Water
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 […]
The Queen and the Smokehouse
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 […]
Nuisance Bear
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 […]
Sloan Science on Screen Award: Silent Friend
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 World of Love
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 […]
It Would Be Night in Caracas
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, […]
Two Pianos
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 […]