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The 2026 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival opens with COMEDY, a shorts block featuring four outstanding and hilarious films. Cockroach (23min)Justice Singleton, USA, 2025 […]

All listed screenings take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. The debut film from Hayao Miyazaki, Nausicaa is […]

This screening will take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. Arguably the chef d’oeuvre in the anime icon’s […]

Following the finale of his TV show, filmmaker John Wilson searches for a new creative outlet. After attending a workshop on how to write […]

The 2026 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival continues with DOCUMENTARY, a shorts block featuring four poignant and explorative films. 3 Hearts of Iron (13:25min)Ariel del Sol, Costa Rica, […]

After his teenage son, Chris, is last seen by a surveillance camera on a bridge over Warsaw’s turbulent Vistula River, Daniel embarks on an […]

A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which, years before, was […]

The 2026 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival continues with HORROR, a shorts block featuring five terrifying and shocking films. Mascott (13:31min)Marilyne Lamontagne, Canada, 2025 Scott, a transgender actor […]

This screening will take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. One of the most thrilling movie epics of […]

The 2026 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival continues with GRAB BAG, a shorts block of films featuring nine films with a variety of genre and tone. […]

From Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi—popularly known as Los Javis—La Bola Negra follows three generations of men across pivotal moments in Spanish […]

FATHERLAND centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) – actress, writer and […]

A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event […]

From Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi—popularly known as Los Javis—La Bola Negra follows three generations of men across pivotal moments in Spanish […]

All listed screenings take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. All screenings will be open caption! In-person Q&A […]

After his teenage son, Chris, is last seen by a surveillance camera on a bridge over Warsaw’s turbulent Vistula River, Daniel embarks on an […]

The 2026 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival continues with SPECULATIVE FICTION, a shorts block featuring six out of this world films. Las Cosas Que Brillan (11:09min)Kristal Sotomayor, United […]

The 2026 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival continues with ADULT(18+), a shorts block featuring five intimate and definitively adult films. Mommy (8:40min)Evie Snax, Manon Praline, United States […]

NAZA is also playing at NEW PEOPLE In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass […]

Presented together, Hunting Flies and Roly Poly are two distinct satirical comedy films by celebrated Director Andrzej Wajda. Hunting Flies will be preceded by […]

While so many effects-driven visions of the future have faded with time, Blade Runner remains a template for imagining the neon-soaked city to come, […]

After his teenage son, Chris, is last seen by a surveillance camera on a bridge over Warsaw’s turbulent Vistula River, Daniel embarks on an […]

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier’s protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun’s […]

From Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi—popularly known as Los Javis—La Bola Negra follows three generations of men across pivotal moments in Spanish […]

FATHERLAND centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) – actress, writer and […]

After his teenage son, Chris, is last seen by a surveillance camera on a bridge over Warsaw’s turbulent Vistula River, Daniel embarks on an […]

FATHERLAND centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) – actress, writer and […]

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier’s protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun’s […]

Following the finale of his TV show, filmmaker John Wilson searches for a new creative outlet. After attending a workshop on how to write […]

Part of our series Wild, Weird, Wicked: Films From Before the Code! Directed by the illustrious William Wyler (The Good Fairy, The Big Country, […]

NAZA is also playing at NEW PEOPLE In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass […]

From Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi—popularly known as Los Javis—La Bola Negra follows three generations of men across pivotal moments in Spanish […]

From two-time Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu, a Norwegian woman and her devoutRomanian husband relocate with their five children to a remote, close-knit, coastal […]

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier’s protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun’s […]

FATHERLAND centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) – actress, writer and […]

Zann’s Staff Pick! The screening will be briefly introduced at 8:20pm, followed by a short drag show organized by Zann Nolan, spotlighting the Haus of […]

Followed by a post-screening Q&A moderated by filmmaker Judy Irving. In 1972, biologists George Hunt and Molly Warner make an unprecedented discovery while studying […]

Ainara is seventeen, brilliant, and expected to choose a university degree. Instead, she makes a choice no one saw coming: she feels called to […]

The 28-year-old Kubrick’s first film with a certifiable star—looming lead lug Sterling Hayden, fronting an ensemble of desperate, lumpy-visaged characters, including the livewire Timothy […]

From Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi—popularly known as Los Javis—La Bola Negra follows three generations of men across pivotal moments in Spanish […]

Come dressed as your favorite character from the film on Halloween and score FREE POPCORN. Snakeskin jackets, red lipstick, and Lynchian weirdness encouraged! “This […]

Co-presented by Bay Area Chinese Culture Salon and Amoment Books. Nineteen-year-old Songlian, a promising student whose family has been destroyed by her father’s death, […]

Veneno’, a rebellious young drifter, frequents roadside diners where he sleeps with truck drivers. Urgently needing a ride, he meets ‘Muñeco’, a hard-edged driver […]

All listed screenings take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. Director J.M. Harper in person for a post-screening […]

A Palestinian American activist’s murder in Southern California sparks a 40-year search for justice, exposing the origins of a modern political movement’s dangerous ideology. […]

Where its predecessor was a slow-burn suspenser, Cameron’s ALIENS is a bombastic, no-holds-barred exosuit fight to the finish, an express elevator to hell, goin’ […]

From Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi—popularly known as Los Javis—La Bola Negra follows three generations of men across pivotal moments in Spanish […]

NAZA is also playing at NEW PEOPLE In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass […]

Veneno’, a rebellious young drifter, frequents roadside diners where he sleeps with truck drivers. Urgently needing a ride, he meets ‘Muñeco’, a hard-edged driver […]

A Palestinian American activist’s murder in Southern California sparks a 40-year search for justice, exposing the origins of a modern political movement’s dangerous ideology. […]

Co-presented by Bay Area Chinese Culture Salon and Amoment Books. Nineteen-year-old Songlian, a promising student whose family has been destroyed by her father’s death, […]

FATHERLAND centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) – actress, writer and […]

20 years after becoming a worldwide sensation, Bong Joon Ho’s acclaimed creature feature THE HOST returns to theaters in a stunning new 4K restoration, […]

All listed screenings take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint […]

Post screening Q&A with Director’s and Film Subject’s Janay Boulos and Abd Alkader Habak. By turning the camera on themselves, the co-directors follow the […]

A Palestinian American activist’s murder in Southern California sparks a 40-year search for justice, exposing the origins of a modern political movement’s dangerous ideology. […]

Veneno’, a rebellious young drifter, frequents roadside diners where he sleeps with truck drivers. Urgently needing a ride, he meets ‘Muñeco’, a hard-edged driver […]

Co-presented by Bay Area Chinese Culture Salon and Amoment Books. Nineteen-year-old Songlian, a promising student whose family has been destroyed by her father’s death, […]

From Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi—popularly known as Los Javis—La Bola Negra follows three generations of men across pivotal moments in Spanish […]

Part of IN THE MOOD FOR ALMODÓVAR, presented in anticipation of our upcoming run of BITTER CHRISTMAS. Rejected from Cannes for being sacrilegious in […]

A Palestinian American activist’s murder in Southern California sparks a 40-year search for justice, exposing the origins of a modern political movement’s dangerous ideology. […]

20 years after becoming a worldwide sensation, Bong Joon Ho’s acclaimed creature feature THE HOST returns to theaters in a stunning new 4K restoration, […]

Veneno’, a rebellious young drifter, frequents roadside diners where he sleeps with truck drivers. Urgently needing a ride, he meets ‘Muñeco’, a hard-edged driver […]

Co-presented by Bay Area Chinese Culture Salon and Amoment Books. Nineteen-year-old Songlian, a promising student whose family has been destroyed by her father’s death, […]

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier’s protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun’s […]

Veneno’, a rebellious young drifter, frequents roadside diners where he sleeps with truck drivers. Urgently needing a ride, he meets ‘Muñeco’, a hard-edged driver […]

Co-presented by Bay Area Chinese Culture Salon and Amoment Books. Nineteen-year-old Songlian, a promising student whose family has been destroyed by her father’s death, […]

Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What […]

Robert Longo’s JOHNNY MNEMONIC: IN BLACK & WHITE strips the cyberpunk thriller down to its starkest elements, turning its corporate dystopia, overloaded data networks, […]

Co-presented by Bay Area Chinese Culture Salon and Amoment Books. Nineteen-year-old Songlian, a promising student whose family has been destroyed by her father’s death, […]

Part of IN THE MOOD FOR ALMODÓVAR, presented in anticipation of our upcoming run of BITTER CHRISTMAS. This fast-paced celebration of hysteria put Almodóvar […]

Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What […]

Teresa Carpenter’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Village Voice article “Death of a Playmate” was adapted by Fosse for what would be his final movie, with the […]

This screening will take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. Director Tanaz Eshaghian in person for a post-screening […]

On the last day of World War II in a small town somewhere in Poland, Polish exiles of war and the occupying Soviet forces […]