Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Orson Welles’ wildly audacious breakthrough imagines the flamboyant life of mining heir Charles Foster Kane who parlays his fortune into tabloid media superstardom and runs for office as a populist savior. Welles’ 1941 masterpiece of American ambi...

USA | 120

Seeded by a historical event—the Thammasat University massacre of 1976, in which student protesters were murdered by Thai government forces—this elliptical, bewitching film unfurls like a mutant growth from the compost of the past. As a film direc...

Thailand/France/Netherlands/Qatar | 105

Costarring Sergi López and Julieta’s Emma Suárez, and gorgeously set in the Spanish Pyrenees, this tense and sexy exploration of identity and small-town suspicions concerns 17-year-old Léo (Àlex Monner, in a rich and beguiling performance), who re...

Spain/Switzerland | 103

“Music is our refuge,” says a student at the Sainte Trinité Music School in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Shot over a seven-year period both before and after Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake, this vibrant and inspiring tribute to the students and teac...

USA | 70

The poetic, political imagery that has made Jem Cohen an iconoclastic American treasure is on full display in his recent work. World Without End (No Reported Incidents), a portrait of Southend-on-Sea, a working-class British resort town near Londo...

USA | 77

In post-Communist era Bulgaria, where the shadow of oppression drives selfish behavior and hidden economies, outwardly impassive Gana works as a home care nurse—a job which provides ample opportunity to supplement her income with stolen ID cards, ...

Bulgaria/Denmark/France | 99

Tackling the lives and woes of the hyperarticulate and emotionally manipulative, Perry’s latest effort features an expert ensemble cast in a story about a young woman who comes to work for an archivist and causes a series of emotional ripples amon...

USA | 94

Kitty Green’s provocative film creates a new approach to the JonBenet Ramsey murder case, still a source of endless fascination even after 20 years. By auditioning actors from Ramsey’s Colorado hometown for a film about the crime, this stylized d...

USA/Australia | 81

In a career spanning thirty years and four Academy Award nominations, Ethan Hawke has solidified his reputation as a truly multifaceted artist, challenging himself as a screenwriter, director, novelist, and actor of the stage and screen. In 2016, ...

Canada/Ireland | 115

As the inexorable progress of industrialization in China makes its way into the lives of village residents Mingchun and his son Leilei, a surprise haunting by Leilei’s dead mother, who has an impassioned plea for her husband, points to a time when...

China | 80

As an aspiring playwright and children’s theater coach on the rebound from a long-term relationship, former Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams brings her unique mixture of blunt outspokenness and warm vulnerability to this low-key comedy ab...

USA | 83

In Albert Serra’s masterful The Death of Louis XIV we are a guest in the bedchamber of King Louis (Jean-Pierre Léaud) where, among his loyal servants, all energy and concern is devoted to the King on his deathbed. In the room, Serra presents a pai...

France/Portugal/Spain | 115

Immerse yourself in contemporary cinema and cutting-edge production technology at VR Day, a pilot program at this year’s Festival designed to showcase emergent storytellers in virtual-reality filmmaking. Held at Gray Area—one of the nation’s leadi...

Immerse yourself in contemporary cinema and cutting-edge production technology at VR Day, a pilot program at this year’s Festival designed to showcase emergent storytellers in virtual-reality filmmaking. Held at Gray Area—one of the nation’s leadi...

Immerse yourself in contemporary cinema and cutting-edge production technology at VR Day, a pilot program at this year’s Festival designed to showcase emergent storytellers in virtual-reality filmmaking. Held at Gray Area—one of the nation’s leadi...

Stepping—a dance style of clapping, stomping, and using the body to make noise for a beat—is high-energy and precise, but the Lethal Ladies step team from The Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women has more to focus on than a cherished trophy...

USA | 83

Immerse yourself in contemporary cinema and cutting-edge production technology at VR Day, a pilot program at this year’s Festival designed to showcase emergent storytellers in virtual-reality filmmaking. Held at Gray Area—one of the nation’s leadi...

Immerse yourself in contemporary cinema and cutting-edge production technology at VR Day, a pilot program at this year’s Festival designed to showcase emergent storytellers in virtual-reality filmmaking. Held at Gray Area—one of the nation’s leadi...

Michael Almereyda’s complex and moving film introduces us to Walter Prime (Jon Hamm), a hologram meant to help the aged Marjorie (stage legend Lois Smith) recall treasured memories shared with her husband. As family members feed Walter questionabl...

USA | 99

Immerse yourself in contemporary cinema and cutting-edge production technology at VR Day, a pilot program at this year’s Festival designed to showcase emergent storytellers in virtual-reality filmmaking. Held at Gray Area—one of the nation’s leadi...

Director James Gray’s stunning adaptation of David Grann’s bestseller traces the stranger-than-fiction history of an early 20th-century English army officer who believes he’s discovered a long-lost civilization deep in the Amazonian jungle. Part H...

USA | 140

Immerse yourself in contemporary cinema and cutting-edge production technology at VR Day, a pilot program at this year’s Festival designed to showcase emergent storytellers in virtual-reality filmmaking. Held at Gray Area—one of the nation’s leadi...

The trial between Hulk Hogan and Gawker Media seemed like a standard sex-tape lawsuit after the private video was posted online. But Hogan’s lawyers (with the help of a Silicon Valley mogul) won the case, bankrupting Gawker, and signifying a major...

USA | 93

Immerse yourself in contemporary cinema and cutting-edge production technology at VR Day, a pilot program at this year’s Festival designed to showcase emergent storytellers in virtual-reality filmmaking. Held at Gray Area—one of the nation’s leadi...

Immerse yourself in contemporary cinema and cutting-edge production technology at VR Day, a pilot program at this year’s Festival designed to showcase emergent storytellers in virtual-reality filmmaking. Held at Gray Area—one of the nation’s leadi...

Immerse yourself in contemporary cinema and cutting-edge production technology at VR Day, a pilot program at this year’s Festival designed to showcase emergent storytellers in virtual-reality filmmaking. Held at Gray Area—one of the nation’s leadi...

Skillfully adapted from a Russian novella rather than Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth ferociously depicts a young woman, sold into marriage on the manor, as she finds her way to blood-soaked power and sexual fulfillment. Twenty-year-old Florence Pugh gi...

UK | 89

Immerse yourself in contemporary cinema and cutting-edge production technology at VR Day, a pilot program at this year’s Festival designed to showcase emergent storytellers in virtual-reality filmmaking. Held at Gray Area—one of the nation’s leadi...

Immerse yourself in contemporary cinema and cutting-edge production technology at VR Day, a pilot program at this year’s Festival designed to showcase emergent storytellers in virtual-reality filmmaking. Held at Gray Area—one of the nation’s leadi...

Immerse yourself in contemporary cinema and cutting-edge production technology at VR Day, a pilot program at this year’s Festival designed to showcase emergent storytellers in virtual-reality filmmaking. Held at Gray Area—one of the nation’s leadi...

Immerse yourself in contemporary cinema and cutting-edge production technology at VR Day, a pilot program at this year’s Festival designed to showcase emergent storytellers in virtual-reality filmmaking. Held at Gray Area—one of the nation’s leadi...

In this unsettling narrative, Rami Malek (Mr. Robot) plays an unkempt man named Buster who hides out in unoccupied vacation homes and calls into radio shows ranting about Y2K. In other sequences, he is a mild-mannered hotel concierge named Jonah w...

USA | 98

Immerse yourself in contemporary cinema and cutting-edge production technology at VR Day, a pilot program at this year’s Festival designed to showcase emergent storytellers in virtual-reality filmmaking. Held at Gray Area—one of the nation’s leadi...

Taking a deep dive into Hitchcock’s shower scene in Psycho (1960), director Philippe marshals a perfect assemblage of commentators to discuss its lasting effect. From directors (Peter Bogdanovich, Guillermo del Toro) to editors (Walter Murch), com...

USA | 91

Recognized internationally for her innovative work investigating issues key to the workings of society—the relationship between identity and technology and the use of media against censorship and repression—Lynn Hershman Leeson’s film, installatio...

USA | 73

In Albert Serra’s masterful The Death of Louis XIV we are a guest in the bedchamber of King Louis (Jean-Pierre Léaud) where, among his loyal servants, all energy and concern is devoted to the King on his deathbed. In the room, Serra presents a pai...

France/Portugal/Spain | 115

Without sanctifying or vilifying its protagonist, Wong Chun’s first feature movingly tells the story of one man afflicted with bipolar disorder. Once a successful stockbroker, Tung (Shawn Yue) is released from a sanatorium and moves into a cramped...

Hong Kong | 101

“You don’t get lost because you can’t see, you get lost because you don’t know where you are.” Weaving breathtaking 16mm footage of land and sky of the Sonoran Desert and eerie off-camera interviews, filmmakers Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki (...

USA | 94

An engaging portrait of the turbulent life of one of history’s most celebrated scientists, Marie Noëlle’s stellar drama depicts the challenges and condescending societal attitudes faced by a woman in a male-dominated field. Noëlle gained access to...

Germany/France/Poland | 95

Muhi, a cherubic Palestinian toddler with a life-threatening immune disorder, was transported to an Israeli hospital as a baby for emergency treatment. He and his devoted grandfather have lived there ever since, stuck in a bizarre no man’s land, w...

Israel, Germany | 87

In post-Communist era Bulgaria, where the shadow of oppression drives selfish behavior and hidden economies, outwardly impassive Gana works as a home care nurse—a job which provides ample opportunity to supplement her income with stolen ID cards, ...

Bulgaria/Denmark/France | 99

The soothing sound of the sea and the soft winds blowing in the pastures create a false sense of optimism, but everything in this environment is poisoned, including the delicious mushrooms that carpet the surrounding forest. With minimal commentar...

Switzerland/France | 61

Absurdly funny sequences punctuate this stylized comedy drama from Lebanon. Omar is a heavyset bodyguard who gets the assignment of his dreams, protecting a gorgeous TV personality, though matters are complicated when his brother Omar, a former mi...

France/Lebanon | 70

“Music is our refuge,” says a student at the Sainte Trinité Music School in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Shot over a seven-year period both before and after Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake, this vibrant and inspiring tribute to the students and teac...

USA | 70

Irish filmmaker Neasa Nî Chianáin and David Rane present a charming and deeply intimate portrait of a year at Headfort boarding school in picturesque Kells, Ireland. Following devoted and wryly funny educators John and Amanda Leyden as they battle...

Ireland, Spain | 100

Canadian-Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk’s Maliglutit (Searchers) continues in the breathtaking vein of his unforgettable Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001) with this story of cruelty and cold revenge based loosely on John Ford’s The Searchers (195...

Canada | 94

A planeful of French soldiers finishing a tour in Afghanistan are flown to the island of Cyprus for a three-day recuperative stint of “sport, relaxation, and collective debriefing.” For longtime friends Aurore and Marine and their cohorts, this ex...

France/Greece | 102

Eduardo Williams has steadily made a name for himself with a series of indelible shorts featuring young protagonists adrift in strange environments. In his debut feature, a prizewinner at Locarno, he takes the premise further, crafting a dreamlike...

Argentina/Brazil/Portugal | 97

Seeded by a historical event—the Thammasat University massacre of 1976, in which student protesters were murdered by Thai government forces—this elliptical, bewitching film unfurls like a mutant growth from the compost of the past. As a film direc...

Thailand/France/Netherlands/Qatar | 105

With visual and verbal verve, The Student tells the story of Venya, a high school student who wields his worn copy of the Bible like a hammer to use against his mom, teachers, and peers. Serebrennikov offers a potent story of bullying behavior whe...

Russia | 118

Toeing the line between documentary, fiction, and uncomfortable comedy, director Mike Ott (Littlerock, Festival 2010; Pearblossom Highway, Festival 2012) returns with an eccentric portrait of five aspiring actors in Lancaster, California, whose Ho...

USA | 85

The lives, dreams, and desires of three stalwart denizens of a desolate Georgian mining town provide the framework for this observational and gorgeously rendered film.

Georgia/USA/Qatar/Netherlands | 100

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

Reportedly the first documentary ever selected for Cannes' Critics Week and winner of its Grand Prize, Makala details the almost Sisyphean labor that 28-year-old Congolese Kabwita Kasongo undergoes to bring the charcoal he makes to market.

France | 96

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

Power struggles and moral compromises feed an escalating conflict when an uncompromising fish farmer clashes with his neighbor and a powerful company that has its sights set on his land.

Iran | 118

In the midst of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, a loving, wise, and defiant grandmother raises her two young grandsons.

Denmark/Sweden/Finland | 90

Take a journey through the stars, in this ever-growing experimental work from filmmaker Johann Lurf.

Austria | 99

The lives, dreams, and desires of three stalwart denizens of a desolate Georgian mining town provide the framework for this observational and gorgeously rendered film.

Georgia/USA/Qatar/Netherlands | 100

Reportedly the first documentary ever selected for Cannes' Critics Week and winner of its Grand Prize, Makala details the almost Sisyphean labor that 28-year-old Congolese Kabwita Kasongo undergoes to bring the charcoal he makes to market.

France | 96

In Hong's effervescent new work, a trio of Koreans in Cannes for the film festival circle around one another and a camera-toting tourist from Paris, played by Isabelle Huppert.

France/South Korea | 69

As a visual artist and filmmaker, Lauren Greenfield (The Queen of Versailles, Festival 2012) has obsessively documented the ultra-wealthy and the gulf between their extravagant lives and their fundamental dissatisfaction as human beings for over 2...

USA | 107

Bringing to light a little-known piece of Cuban history, this moving and understated medical drama set in 1989 tells the story of a Russian teacher in Havana drafted to serve as a translator for children brought from Chernobyl for medical treatment.

Canada/Cuba | 108

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

Master director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film is a tour-de-force examination of guilt and justice.

Japan | 125

Take a journey through the stars, in this ever-growing experimental work from filmmaker Johann Lurf.

Austria | 99

Weaving the story and letters of radical American abolitionist John Brown and the attack on Harper’s Ferry with her own personal history, filmmaker Lee Ann Schmitt (The Last Buffalo Hunt, Festival 2011) uses her signature essay style to create a p...

USA | 80

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

USA | 94

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

Director Jeremiah Zagar uses the dreamy language and impressionistic narrative of Justin Torres's novel of the same name to tell the coming-of-age story of three young Puerto Rican boys growing up in a loving family shadowed by domestic violence.

USA | 90

The lives, dreams, and desires of three stalwart denizens of a desolate Georgian mining town provide the framework for this observational and gorgeously rendered film.

Georgia/USA/Qatar/Netherlands | 100

In Hong's effervescent new work, a trio of Koreans in Cannes for the film festival circle around one another and a camera-toting tourist from Paris, played by Isabelle Huppert.

France/South Korea | 69

Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih became the first female appointed to any of the Middle East’s Shari’a courts in 2009, challenging longstanding traditions and customs of women’s roles in society.

USA/Palestine | 82

The masterful Emma Thompson delivers an exceptionally compassionate performance as Fiona May, a British High Court judge who is given a challenging case that asks her to balance deeply held religious beliefs and the state's duty to protect children.

UK | 105

Without preamble, a young Kyrgyz boy is taken out of an orphanage and into the lives of his supposed parents who make ends meet by running various cons on unsuspecting villagers.

Kyrgyzstan/Russia | 103

"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

In the midst of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, a loving, wise, and defiant grandmother raises her two young grandsons.

Denmark/Sweden/Finland | 90

Extraordinary images abound of an imagined future or past: the abandoned husk of a downed airplane used as an animal shed, chickens pecking feed from an old construction helmet, a raft with a roof made from an old car, transporting sheep across a ...

Iceland/France | 61

Weaving the story and letters of radical American abolitionist John Brown and the attack on Harper’s Ferry with her own personal history, filmmaker Lee Ann Schmitt (The Last Buffalo Hunt, Festival 2011) uses her signature essay style to create a p...

USA | 80

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 assault of two underage girls by a local official in a sunlight-bathed seaside town becomes the focal point for this seething study of the challenges women face in Chinese society.

China/France | 107

"When I was 18, I had so many ideas," reflects Sandi Tan in this buoyant personal documentary.

USA | 96

Extraordinary images abound of an imagined future or past: the abandoned husk of a downed airplane used as an animal shed, chickens pecking feed from an old construction helmet, a raft with a roof made from an old car, transporting sheep across a ...

Iceland/France | 61