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Director Max Lugavere in person for Q&A! Once a strong and independent woman, Kathy Lugavere finds herself struggling with her memory. In a quest to […]

“When people say films are religious experiences, that is exactly La Chimera. Alice Rohrwacher’s enchanting vision led by Josh O’Connor completely washes over you […]

Nominated for an Oscar® in the category Best International Feature Film “Perfect Days is the type of rare film that warms your heart, crafting […]

Co-presented by Frameline! “With her debut film, Hammel has totally and permanently shifted the genric mechanics of the satire.” – Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com The […]

2024 SFFILM Festival Encore at The Roxie In this drama inspired by co-director Nara Normande’s own life, teenage Tamara spends the summer of 1996 […]

“One of the best animated movies in years… [this] extraordinary film draws an ocean of feeling from just a few splashes of color.” David […]

The top-grossing Korean film of the year, Director Jae-hyun Jang’s (THE PRIESTS) newest horror film EXHUMA opened to rave reviews – premiering to a […]

2024 SFFILM Festival Encore at The Roxie Filmmaker Iram Parveen Bilal takes inspiration from the story of Qandeel Baloch in crafting this compelling drama. […]

2024 SFFILM Festival Encore at The Roxie When the Russians invade Ukraine, husband-and-wife artists Slava and Anya, their faithful dog Frodo, and dear friend […]

“A terrific outback noir…a tough, sandblasted thriller that coolly lays out the racism and discrimination the Indigenous population face.”– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (UK) […]

2024 SFFILM Festival Encore at The Roxie A heroine hides in plain sight as a dishwasher in a Connecticut Whole Foods in Lucy Walker‘s […]

In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. […]

2024 SFFILM Festival Encore at The Roxie An encore screening of the Audience Award Documentary Feature. To Be Announced! Founded in 1957, the San […]

Structured like a quietly grand novel, subtle and elliptical, Ceylan’s film unfolds with Chekhovian grace and a cutting understanding of character. — Barry Hertz, […]

2024 SFFILM Festival Encore at The Roxie Ten-year-old Tinh’s family flees Vietnam after the 1975 fall of Saigon, undertaking an arduous journey to Quebec […]

“A terrific outback noir…a tough, sandblasted thriller that coolly lays out the racism and discrimination the Indigenous population face.”– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (UK) […]

2024 SFFILM Festival Encore at The Roxie An encore screening of the Audience Award Narrative Feature: To Be Announced! Founded in 1957, the San […]

In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. […]

2024 SFFILM Festival Encore at The Roxie Sean Wang‘s auspicious, semi-autobiographical feature debut centers on a universally recognizable phase of adolescence — that moment […]

Filmmaker Alison O’Daniel in person, in conversation with Jim Lebrecht after the film! Deaf filmmaker Alison O’Daniel came across a news report about the […]

“An adoring opus… Brimming with previously unseen footage and refreshing frank interviews.” – INDIEWIRE With forty years of making music as the iconic folk-rock […]

Join us in celebration of Ritual Coffee’s Awards Season Seasonal Espresso – a coffee tribute to your own Roxie Theater! This delicious coffee is […]

“A terrific outback noir…a tough, sandblasted thriller that coolly lays out the racism and discrimination the Indigenous population face.”– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (UK) […]

Made over 6 years, acclaimed director Jeanie Finlay charts the rise of writer and activist Aubrey Gordon from anonymous blogger to NYTimes best selling […]

In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. […]

In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. […]

“Oh Hannah! Come and enflame us with such love as to light up our eyes that we will never sleep in DEATH!” Bewildering mashed […]

Presented by Arab Film and Media Institute 14-year-old Zeina and her family are the last to have stayed in their besieged hometown of Damascus […]

In Tehran, a new father seeks to register the name (insufficiently Islamic, he is told) of his newborn son; a 20-something rideshare driver caught […]

Director Emily Hong in person! Above and Below the Ground depicts the indigenous women activists and punk rock pastors in Myanmar’s first environmental movement to […]

What sustains our communities? Constellating food politics and land use as vital factors of social life, these films trace the woven relations between human […]

Filmmakers Persia Campbell Juarez and Alex Mastoon, Femme Frontera Director of Community Engagement Jackie Barragan, and Femme Frontera Artist Support Manager Ryan Rox IN […]

Director Tarek Albaba in person! In 2015, three Muslim American students were eating dinner in their home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, when Craig […]

In Tehran, a new father seeks to register the name (insufficiently Islamic, he is told) of his newborn son; a 20-something rideshare driver caught […]

Director Harrison Xu, Director Ivan Leung, and Producer Noel Do-Murakami in person! Meet Ryan and Daniel, two childhood best friends and aspiring actors, as they […]

These leaders in dance, law, politics, and youth organizing, take brave steps toward their highest ideals. From performance prowess to professional leadership and praiseworthy […]

Out/Here has been a vital institution celebrating queer stories and storytellers at CAAMFest for over a decade. This year, we’re thinking about the social […]

In Tehran, a new father seeks to register the name (insufficiently Islamic, he is told) of his newborn son; a 20-something rideshare driver caught […]

The Taste of Mango is an enveloping, hypnotic, urgently personal meditation on family, memory, identity, violence, and love. At its center are three extraordinary women: […]

Traversing American and Australian geographies, the diverse conditions and contexts shaping diasporic Pacific identities come into view through these films. As they navigate the […]

In Tehran, a new father seeks to register the name (insufficiently Islamic, he is told) of his newborn son; a 20-something rideshare driver caught […]

The first in our new series Wild, Weird, Wicked: Films from Before the Code, celebrating the best and wildest films of Hollywood’s pre-code era, […]

50th anniversary! “Perhaps the greatest of Cassavetes’ films.” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times Nominated for multiple Oscars, Emmys, and Golden Globes (and taking home […]

Lynn Hershman Leeson’s !Women Art Revolution (2010) is an 83-minute documentary that draws from hundreds of hours of intimate interviews conducted by Leeson with […]

Presented by Canyon CinemaToney W. Merritt in person for Q&A after both screenings! The Bay Area–based independent filmmaker Toney W. Merritt has been creating […]

“For everyone who’s ever sought community and found it waiting for them where they least expect it.” – Vox Celebrated directorial duo the Ross […]

Frame by frame, layer by layer, these works bring the attractions of animation – movement, texture, materiality – to bear on core questions of […]

Hayoung, a Korean American teenager dealing with her parents’ separation, longs to belong somewhere. When her mother enrolls her in a competitive summer school, […]

Presented by Canyon CinemaToney W. Merritt in person for Q&A after both screenings! The Bay Area–based independent filmmaker Toney W. Merritt has been creating […]

These films move beyond the smooth-as-silk sensuality we so often see on screen to draw out a more nuanced view of intimacy. Tense urges, […]

“For everyone who’s ever sought community and found it waiting for them where they least expect it.” – Vox Celebrated directorial duo the Ross […]

The body keeps the score in more ways than one. From the epidermal surface to our inner depths, these bodies are charged sites where […]

“For everyone who’s ever sought community and found it waiting for them where they least expect it.” – Vox Celebrated directorial duo the Ross […]

50th anniversary! “Perhaps the greatest of Cassavetes’ films.” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times Nominated for multiple Oscars, Emmys, and Golden Globes (and taking home […]

“APOCALYPSE NOW IS NOT MERELY THE GREATEST FILM TO COME OUT OF THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE, BUT ONE OF THE GREAT WORKS ABOUT THE MADNESS OF […]

“For everyone who’s ever sought community and found it waiting for them where they least expect it.” – Vox Celebrated directorial duo the Ross […]

Avast, landlubbers! It’s time to spill the beans! The drag experience Media Meltdown is returning to the Roxie to present Robert Eggers’ modern cult […]

ALL NEW DIRECTOR’S CUT! Director Richard Shepard in person for Q&A after the screening Lucy (Rosanna Arquette) is a under-paid, under-appreciated waitress at a […]

Deep in the forest of the small rural village Harasawa, single parent Takumi lives with his young daughter, Hana, and takes care of odd […]

. The San Francisco premiere of the multi award winning film THIS IS YOUR SONG. “ ★ ★ ★ ★…This Is Your Song captures […]

Part of Taipei Tales: The Cinema of Edward Yang The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi (A One and a Two . . .), directed by the […]

Q&A with Directors Chani Bockwinkel and Ty Burdenski following the documentary screening! Those Who Wait is a poetic retelling of the Millerite doomsday movement […]

Post-screening conversation with director Alan Kryszak and with Rev. Gerald Caprio from The Interfaith Center at the Presidio. The West Coast premiere of “The […]