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221 4th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 United States

The Children’s Creativity Museum is undergoing heavy construction, and the entrance at 4th and Howard is currently blocked. The Theater is accessible by an elevator on Folsom at Mabini St. We recommend navigating directions to 750 Folsom Street, which will take you to the elevator. There is also an elevator on the other side of Howard Street. From the second level of that elevator, the bridge leads to the theater.
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I Am Not a Witch

I Am Not a Witch

"The child is a witch,” exclaim the villagers in the opening of this strikingly beautiful first feature by Rungano Nyoni.

UK/France/Zambia/Germany | 93

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

"I already had my troubles for today, so I can't worry about tomorrow," states Daniel, one of the protagonists in award-winning photographer RaMell Ross's inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people.

USA | 77

My Life with James Dean

My Life with James Dean

Still pining for his ex-boyfriend, Géraud has come to a French seaside town to present his new experimental film, but the only person keen on seeing it is the cinema's underage projectionist who becomes smitten with the handsome director.

France | 108

Hal

Hal

In Amy Scott’s comprehensive and affectionate documentary, the capricious life and career of one of Hollywood’s iconic filmmakers, Hal Ashby, is brought to light.

USA | 90

Scary Mother

Scary Mother

Manana, a wild-haired 50-something mother of three, has just written a book.

Georgia/Estonia | 107

Creativity Summit: Alex Garland in Conversation

Creativity Summit: Alex Garland in Conversation

The 2018 Creativity Summit at the SFFILM Festival foregrounds a suite of programming interrogating the intersection of film and technology-issues that reach into how technology impacts us and our ability to create and connect. Our speakers and pan...

65

At Rush!

Creativity Summit: Jaron Lanier in Conversation

Creativity Summit: Jaron Lanier in Conversation

The 2018 Creativity Summit at the SFFILM Festival foregrounds a suite of programming interrogating the intersection of film and technology—issues that reach into how technology impacts us and our ability to create and connect. Our speakers a...

65

Winter Brothers

Winter Brothers

A powerful batch of moonshine made in the barracks of an industrial compound causes problems for Emil after his coworkers become ill.

Denmark/Iceland | 94

Loveling

Loveling

Irene, the mother of four boys, is thrown onto an emotional quandary when her eldest son, an expert athlete, is recruited to play for a German handball team.

Brazil/Uruguay | 98

What Will People Say

What Will People Say

Living with her Pakistani family in Oslo, smart and popular Aisha feels pretty assimilated into Norwegian culture and mores – until her father catches her making out with her boyfriend, and her life is upended completely.

Norway/Germany/Sweden | 106

Ulam: Main Dish

Ulam: Main Dish

For lovers of food documentaries like Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) and the Chef’s Table series, Ulam: Main Dish will come as a welcome and fresh addition.

USA | 80

The Cleaners

The Cleaners

Compassionately portraying the Filipino workers who comb through thousands of online images in the dark of night, The Cleaners exposes the dark side of information technology.

Germany/Brazil | 88

Three Identical Strangers

Three Identical Strangers

The fact that Robert Shafran, Edward Galland, and David Kellman are triplets separated at birth who find one another in their early twenties is only the first revelation in this mind-blowing documentary.

USA | 96

Half the Picture

Half the Picture

Amy Adrion's necessary documentary interviews scores of women in Hollywood, including Miranda July, Ava DuVernay, and Penelope Spheeris, to address the industry's woeful record of promoting, sustaining, and advocating for female filmmakers.

USA | 94

Beast

Beast

Set on the starkly picturesque island of Jersey where someone is murdering young women, Beast details the erotic collision between defiant, copper-haired Moll Huntford and a mysterious and sexy poacher who is a person of interest in the criminal i...

UK | 107

Ulam: Main Dish

Ulam: Main Dish

For lovers of food documentaries like Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) and the Chef’s Table series, Ulam: Main Dish will come as a welcome and fresh addition.

USA | 80

No Date, No Signature

No Date, No Signature

A car accident at night causes an escalating amount of damage in the second feature from Jalilvand, an impressive Iranian theater director.

Iran | 104

Djon África

Djon África

At loose ends in Lisbon, Miguel (Miguel Moreira) is prompted by a chance encounter to search for the father he has never known in Cape Verde, where he encounters a diverse mélange of residents.

Portugal/Brazil/Cape Verde | 98

Chef Flynn

Chef Flynn

From the age of 12, Flynn McGarry has pursued his dream to be a chef, from preparing exclusive at-home dinners to apprenticing with top chefs in Manhattan.

USA | 83

Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle

Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle

Julita had three dreams in life – to have lots of kids, a monkey, and a castle – and as she conveys over the course of this funny and touching documentary, managed to obtain all three.

Spain | 91

The Sower

The Sower

In a rural mountain village in 1851, it is up to the women to bring in the grain harvest after all their men have been arrested for sedition.

France/Belgium | 100

The Other Side of Everything

The Other Side of Everything

In 1945, filmmaker Mila Turajlić’s (Cinema Komunisto, Festival 2011) family apartment was divided and redistributed by the state government.

Serbia/France/Qatar | 102

The Rescue List

The Rescue List

Lake Volta in Ghana is the largest man-made lake in the world; it is also notorious as a locale for forced child labor.

USA/Ghana | 80

Inventing Tomorrow

Inventing Tomorrow

Intel's ISEF Fair is the science fair that kids all over the world want to qualify for.

USA | 105

The White Girl

The White Girl

Living in a riverside shack in Hong Kong's last remaining fishing village, a teenager is told by her overprotective father that she must always protect herself from the sun.

Hong Kong/Malaysia/Japan | 97

Tre Maison Dasan

Tre Maison Dasan

Tre, Maison, and Dasan are three boys who all share something in common – one of their parents is in jail.

USA | 94

The Next Guardian

The Next Guardian

In the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan, teenage siblings Gyembo and Tashi share a passion for soccer, Facebook, and girls. Gyembo enjoys reading classmates’ Facebook posts while Tashi turns heads with her confident, boyish demeanor.

Hungary/Netherlands | 74

Minding the Gap

Minding the Gap

In Rockford, Illinois, Bing Liu has been filming his friends Zack and Kiere on and off their skateboards for ten years.

USA | 98

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

"I already had my troubles for today, so I can't worry about tomorrow," states Daniel, one of the protagonists in award-winning photographer RaMell Ross's inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people.

USA | 77

Scary Mother

Scary Mother

Manana, a wild-haired 50-something mother of three, has just written a book.

Georgia/Estonia | 107

Those Who Are Fine

Those Who Are Fine

Through striking framing, intense angles, fragmented scenes, and amusing conversations that at first seem to be unrelated, Those Who Are Fine weaves together stories of a young woman at a telemarketing company who takes advantage of the elderly by...

Switzerland | 71

Bisbee ‘17

Bisbee ‘17

Prolific editor and filmmaker Robert Greene brings us to Bisbee, Arizona – a remote copper mining town close to the Mexican border where 100 years ago, there was a violent deportation of 1,200 striking miners who were ultimately left for dead.

USA | 119

A Prayer Before Dawn

A Prayer Before Dawn

Among gang members, ladyboys, and corrupt guards in an overcrowded Thai prison, heroin addict and bare-knuckle boxer Billy Moore stands out as the only Westerner, and survives the best way he knows how – with his fists.

France/UK | 117

What We Left Unfinished

What We Left Unfinished

From 1996–2002, the negatives of the Afghan Film Archive were bricked up behind a poster of Mullah Omar. In 2013, director Mariam Ghani gained access to this archive and found several unfinished films made between 1978 and 1991. From the lite...

Afghanistan | Documentary | 71

Bloodroot

Bloodroot

Douglas Tirola’s latest documentary traces the evolution of feminism through the lives of two exceptional women, Noel and Selma, who came of age in the '50s when women were relegated to the roles of wives and mothers. After leaving their marr...

USA | Documentary | 97

Premiere

Rojo

Rojo

Set in 1975 Argentina, Benjamin Naishtat's (History of Fear, Festival 2014) noirish drama tells the story of a morally compromised lawyer. Claudio is being investigated over a shady real estate deal in the months leading up to the right-wing ...

Argentina | Fiction Feature | 110

Winter’s Night

Winter’s Night

While stranded overnight in a remote temple town, middle-aged couple Eun-ju and Heung-ju are cast adrift with strangers in a mysterious environment. The objective of the couple's visit was to try and capture the spark of their younger years b...

South Korea | Fiction Feature | 92

Kabul, City in the Wind

Kabul, City in the Wind

Bloodroot

Bloodroot

Asako I & II

Asako I & II

Amid a fireworks display, love hits Baku and Asako with a bang. Dreamy and distracted, Baku mysteriously disappears six months later, and a devastated Asako moves from Osaka to Tokyo, where she meets her former beau’s exact lookalike who clai...

Japan | Fiction Feature | 119

Central Airport THF

Central Airport THF

Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport ceased operations in 2008, but reopened in 2015 as an emergency refugee camp. Tackling the European crisis in a brand-new way, director Karim Aïnouz (Madame Sata, Festival 2003) covers a year of life at Templehof, c...

Germany | Documentary | 97

The Innocent

The Innocent

A take-no-prisoners deep dive into religious belief, Simon Jaquemet’s daring and devious second feature profiles Ruth, an evangelical woman who works in an animal testing facility and believes her former lover has mysteriously returned. As th...

Switzerland | Fiction Feature | 113

Ramen Shop

Ramen Shop

Core of the World

Core of the World

Belmonte

Belmonte

One Child Nation

One Child Nation

At Rush!

Winter’s Night

Winter’s Night

Colewell

Colewell

Premature

Premature

The Death of Dick Long

The Death of Dick Long

Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements

Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements

Award-winning filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky's latest work is an exquisite ode to family lineage and legacy. Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements is a personal and affecting portrait of Brodsky’s young son, Jonas, who is able to hear...

USA | Documentary | 90

The Beast in the Jungle

The Beast in the Jungle

Midnight Traveler

Midnight Traveler

Midnight Family

Midnight Family

At Rush!

Florianópolis Dream

Florianópolis Dream

The Seer and the Unseen

The Seer and the Unseen

The volcanic rock that covers most of Iceland is not just beautiful and protected in the Nature Conservation register, it is also purportedly the home to elves, trolls, and other hidden people. When a new road is set to be built through a lav...

USA | Documentary | 86

The Edge of Democracy

The Edge of Democracy

“Our democracy was founded on forgetting,” states filmmaker Petra Costa, an ever-present narrator guiding us through Brazil's political history, one that has been rife with an incredible amount of controversy. Examining her native country's d...

Brazil | Documentary | 123

Meeting Gorbachev

Meeting Gorbachev

The USSR’s last leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, steps back into the limelight in this riveting documentary focused on a life that changed history. Now 87 and in precarious health, Gorbachev nevertheless possesses a mind as sharp as ever as he parr...

UK | Documentary | 91

At Rush!

Always in Season

Always in Season

Pahokee

Pahokee

Over the Rainbow

Over the Rainbow

Halston

Halston

USA | Documentary | 120

Paper Flags

Paper Flags

France | Fiction Feature | 102

Zana

Zana

Lume has nightmares – cow heads and flayed feet populate her dreams – leading her to wonder if they’re why she can’t get pregnant. They could also be symptoms of PTSD stemming from the Kosovo War of the late 1990s. When her mother-in-l...

Albania | Fiction | 97

Supported by SFFILM

Suk Suk

Suk Suk

The challenges facing aging gay men are dramatized with great warmth in Ray Yeung’s Hong Kong-set portrait of a new love affair. Hoi and Pak have both acknowledged their sexuality late in life; Pak is still married when he makes a pass at Ho...

Hong Kong | Fiction | 92

Sibyl

Sibyl

A new patient triggers a psychotherapist’s obsessions in this psychological thriller. An aspiring writer, Sibyl (Virginie Efira) follows actress Margot (Adèle Exarchopoulos) to a remote island movie set under the guise of treatment. But, really, s...

France | Fiction | 100

So Long, My Son

So Long, My Son

Wang Xiaoshuai’s (Red Amnesia, Festival 2015) unforgettable family portrait tackles the tragic implications of China’s one-child policy in epic form. It tells the story of two families from the 1970s to the present, revealing their trajector...

China | Fiction | 185

Rebuilding Paradise

Fri, Apr 10 at 7:30 pm
Apr 10

Rebuilding Paradise

April 10, 2020 at 7:30 pm PT Creativity Theater

Ron Howard’s stirring documentary begins with visceral images of a town burning while resid...

USA | Documentary | 92

Workforce

Workforce

Issues of inequalities in income and housing are at the heart of this powerful film. When an accident happens on the construction site of an expansive home and the company blames the employee, a crewman named Francisco creates an opportunity for h...

Mexico | Fiction | 82

A Thousand Cuts

A Thousand Cuts

As President Duterte’s reign of terror in the Philippines continues seemingly unchecked and underreported, his most powerful and influential foe is Maria Ressa, the fearless journalist who co-founded the online news site Rappler. Ramona S. Diaz’s ...

USA | Documentary | 120

Abou Leila

Sat, Apr 11 at 8:30 pm
Apr 11

Abou Leila

April 11, 2020 at 8:30 pm PT Creativity Theater

Phantasmagoric and intense, Abou Leila is set during Algeria's bloody conflict of the 1990s. Chil...

Algeria | Fiction | 135

Paris Calligrammes

Paris Calligrammes

Germany | Documentary | 129

Abou Leila

Abou Leila

Algeria | Fiction | 135

Dramarama

Dramarama

USA | Fiction | 91

True History of the Kelly Gang

True History of the Kelly Gang

Australia | Fiction | 124

Rocks

Rocks

British-Nigerian teenager Rocks is a dynamic presence at her high school, doing her classmates’ makeup and initiating food fights in Home Ec class. What her friends don’t know is that she’s contending with an unstable mom who som...

UK | Fiction | 93

Welcome to Chechnya

Welcome to Chechnya

USA | Documentary | 107

Shirley

Shirley

USA | Fiction | 107

Beautiful Dreamer

Beautiful Dreamer

USA | Fiction | 94

A Thousand Cuts

A Thousand Cuts

USA | Documentary | 120

The Last Autumn

The Last Autumn

On the remote Icelandic coast sits a sheep farm tended to by a husband and wife who have lived off the land for years, but have decided that this will be the last season they spend with their shimmying, braying herd.

Iceland | Documentary | 78

The American Sector

The American Sector

USA | New Visions | 70

River City Drumbeat

River City Drumbeat

USA | Documentary | 95

Supported by SFFILM

A Voluntary Year

A Voluntary Year

High-school graduate Jette has plans to spend most of her gap year in Costa Rica. Though she wants to get out from under her domineering dad, Urs (Dark‘s Sebastian Rudolph), her departure means separation from her beloved boyfriend, Mario. W...

Germany | Fiction | 86

Mayor

Mayor

USA | Documentary | 89

Supported by SFFILM

One Four Three Sahara Street

One Four Three Sahara Street

Algeria | Documentary | 100

Saudi Runaway

Saudi Runaway

Muna is a young woman in Saudi Arabia who is unable to live the life that she desperately wants. Restricted by laws and religious practices that prohibit women from doing anything alone – including leaving home to visit the store – Muna decides th...

Switzerland | Documentary | 88

Some Kind of Heaven

Some Kind of Heaven

Florida’s The Villages is one of the highest-ranked senior-living communities in the country.  For those who are fortunate enough to reside in this “Disneyland for Seniors,” there are plenty of activities to indulge in, but behin...

USA | Documentary | 83

The Perfect Candidate

The Perfect Candidate

Senegal | Fiction | 101

Rocks

Rocks

UK | Fiction | 93

The Painter and the Thief

The Painter and the Thief

When two large-scale paintings by Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova are stolen from a gallery in Oslo, she finds herself in the courtroom with one of the convicted thieves, Karl-Bertil Nordland. She asks to paint Nordland, both for compensation and t...

Norway | Documentary | 102

The Iron Hammer

The Iron Hammer

USA | Documentary | 99

I’m No Longer Here

I’m No Longer Here

Mexico | Fiction | 106

Supported by SFFILM

Saudi Runaway

Saudi Runaway

Switzerland | Documentary | 88

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