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Week of Events
Monday, April 20, 2026
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Tuesday, April 21, 2026
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Wednesday, April 22, 2026
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Thursday, April 23, 2026
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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 (a beautifully restrained Willem Dafoe) once arrived in New York determined to be a poet, publishing a slim volume before settling into the quiet routines […]
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 Angela (Wilde) informs Joe (Seth Rogan) that she has invited their upstairs neighbors Pina (Penelope Cruz) and Hawk (Edward Norton) to dinner, he smolders with […]
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 –San Francisco Stories: Pitch Forum
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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 –Joybubbles
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April 25, 2026 –Risa and the Wind Phone
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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 –Sender
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April 25, 2026 –Give Me the Ball!
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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 giant Bill Plympton (The Fan and the Flower, Festival 2006), Academy Award®-winning actor Renée Zellweger (making her directing debut), and a cohort of talented independent […]
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 her mother Utako (Hikari Ishida) is overburdened by the consequences. For Fuki (Yui Suzuki), the specter of death begins manifesting in various corners of her […]
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 a far-off oil field. The treacherous road is windy, unpaved, and peppered with obstacles. The trucks lack shock absorbers and suspension, so the possibility exists […]
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 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 […]
San Francisco Stories: Pitch Forum
San Francisco Stories: Pitch Forum is a premier industry event celebrating the creativity and diversity of San Francisco’s filmmaking community. Designed to amplify the voices of local storytellers, this forum provides a platform for filmmakers to present their narrative projects to an audience of industry professionals and the local creative community. Selected filmmakers will have […]
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 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 […]
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 Chang 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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, 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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, 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 […]
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, 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]