Selected by Richard Misrach Set in the Los Angeles of the slight future, Her follows Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a complex, soulful man who […]

If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated best-selling poet, Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the […]

 Co-Presented by Japan Society of Northern California One of the most beloved directorial debuts of the 1990s and a popular sensation in Japan and beyond, […]

Selected by Liz Deschenes Everything is cinema to smut movie director Pablo Quintero (Eusebio Poncela) in Almodóvar’s absurdist melodrama, where movie madness meets plain […]

Selected by Sophie Calle Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The two manage […]

Deep in the hears of the forest lies a paradise filled with sprites, fairies, tree spirits, and all kinds of animals who live together […]

 Co-Presented by Japan Society of Northern California One of the most beloved directorial debuts of the 1990s and a popular sensation in Japan and beyond, […]

Selected by Adam Fuss Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and […]

If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated best-selling poet, Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the […]

Selected by Kota Ezawa French actress Emmanuelle Riva (2012 Oscar nominee for Amour), in Japan to make a “peace film,” finds herself, in the […]

Summer 2004 on the glistening Galician coast: 18-year-old Marina, a confident, budding filmmaker raised by adoptive parents seeks out her estranged paternal grandparents to […]

A crew of professional shoplifters takes aim at a cutthroat fashion maven. It’s like community service. “Not content with making a modest comedy about […]

Q&A with director Jessica Ernshaw! Thirty years ago, Gail Ritchey, a young woman from a conservative Christian community in rural Ohio, had a stillborn […]

If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated best-selling poet, Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the […]

Join us for a post-screening conversation on July 19 with Harry Dodge and Steak house, moderated by Jenni Olson. Groundbreaking when it was made […]

Summer 2004 on the glistening Galician coast: 18-year-old Marina, a confident, budding filmmaker raised by adoptive parents seeks out her estranged paternal grandparents to […]

 Co-Presented by Japan Society of Northern California One of the most beloved directorial debuts of the 1990s and a popular sensation in Japan and beyond, […]

Director Mark Jenkin in person, in conversation with SFFilm Associate Director of Programming, Mr. Rod Armstrong, for the 6/16 preview screening! Three decades ago, […]

São Paulo, 1983: Women’s soccer has just been legalized in Brazil. A group of rebellious young women form the Gayvotas Football Club and begin […]

Selected by Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller Jane Fonda is Bree Daniels, a sex worker who becomes an essential and unwilling participant in […]

Followed by Q&A with artist Masha Kechaeva, moderated by Elise Schierbeek . BEING LIMINAL BEING explores the rites of passage and strange reflections that guide […]

Selected by Martine Gutierrez An encore screening has been added on Tuesday, July 21. Clashing with an archdemon boar, warrior Ashitaka is stricken with […]

 Co-Presented by Japan Society of Northern California One of the most beloved directorial debuts of the 1990s and a popular sensation in Japan and beyond, […]

The debut feature film by writer/director Luis Valdez is a searing adaptation of his play about the events that led to the infamous 1943 […]

Includes 16 minutes of new, theatrically exclusive post-credit bonus footage from Kane Parsons! A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom, leading […]

Selected by Lee Friedlander Capping a stunning run of 1950s late-career films—falling between Vertigo and Psycho, both summits of cinema in their own right—Alfred […]