Films around San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley, aggregated from select theaters.

Practical Magic 2

There's still a little witch in all of us

Resident Evil (2026)

Zach Cregger heads to Raccoon City

Basic Instinct

Paul Verhoeven's sleazy & shocking erotic thriller

Hope (2026)

A haunting South Korean thriller about fear, conflict, and cosmic disaster

Ghost in the Shell (Dubbed)

A mind-bending, boundary-transcending futuristic sci-fi thriller

Welcome Space Brothers

The unbelievable story of Ruth Norman and the Unarius Academy of Science.

Barbara Forever

EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY KRISTEN STEWART WINNER, TEDDY AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY, 2026 BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL Director Brydie O’Connor IN PERSON for Q&A on Friday, September 18 moderated by Documentary…

Filipiñana

Director Rafael Manuel in person for introduction and Q&A moderated by Ali El-Sadany, editor of FilmSlop, on Saturday, September 5 (at rush). Presented by FiliKula Amid stifling heat and pervasive…

Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger

One of the most anticipated rock 'n' roll comebacks of all time

Floating Features: The Rock

An FBI chemical weapons expert, and a former SAS soldier turned political prisoner, must break into Alcatraz prison when a rogue military group, led by a renegade general, take it over and threaten a…

Senegalese Meet Sene-Gallic

Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk at 6 PM.

Two shorts that mark the beginning and the current state of Alice Diop’s visionary filmmaking: Les Sénégalaises et la Sénégauloise finds her musing on migration, exile, and…

Tony

Late nights, lies, and lobster – don't miss TONY in theaters

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Visionary director Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) presents a new kind of horror remake in TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. Bursting with imagination and surreal wit…

Ghost in the Shell: 30th Anniversary Remaster

“My codename is Project 2501, and I am a life form that was born in a sea of information.” In the year 2029, the world looks like a hybridization of Hong Kong, Tokyo, and New York…

Practical Magic 2

There's still a little witch in all of us

Tony

Late nights, lies, and lobster – don't miss TONY in theaters

Resident Evil (2026)

Zach Cregger heads to Raccoon City

Hope (2026)

A haunting South Korean thriller about fear, conflict, and cosmic disaster

Larry Reed: A Life in Light and Shadow

Join us at the Roxie Theater for a special screening honoring the life and work of Larry Reed (1944–2026), master of Balinese shadow theater, theater and film director, and founder of ShadowLight…

Trouble in Paradise

See Ernst Lubitsch’s “Trouble in Paradise” (1932) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger

One of the most anticipated rock 'n' roll comebacks of all time

Welcome Space Brothers

The unbelievable story of Ruth Norman and the Unarius Academy of Science.

Filipiñana

Director Rafael Manuel in person for introduction and Q&A moderated by Ali El-Sadany, editor of FilmSlop, on Saturday, September 5 (at rush). Presented by FiliKula Amid stifling heat and pervasive…

SF Lost Neon Landscapes: Chinatown

This curated program of short films made from San Francisco-centric footage focuses on Chinatown, one of our city’s most beloved and documented neighborhoods. Program includes famous neon-lit scenes…

Contempt

4K Digital Restoration

Jean-Luc Godard’s Homeric homage to Fritz Lang, “one of the defining moments of modernist filmmaking” (Film Comment). With Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, and Jack Palance.

Barbara Forever

EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY KRISTEN STEWART WINNER, TEDDY AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY, 2026 BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL Director Brydie O’Connor IN PERSON for Q&A on Friday, September 18 moderated by Documentary…

Basic Instinct

Paul Verhoeven's sleazy & shocking erotic thriller

Ghost in the Shell: 30th Anniversary Remaster

“My codename is Project 2501, and I am a life form that was born in a sea of information.” In the year 2029, the world looks like a hybridization of Hong Kong, Tokyo, and New York…

The Hole

New 35mm Print

In Taipei it’s the end of the world as we know it, thanks to a mysterious plague, but even the most alienated urbanite is dreaming of 1950s movie musicals in Tsai Ming-liang’s delirious exploration of modern isolation,…

The Samurai and the Prisoner

Co-presented by the Japan Society of Northern California “Kurosawa has made one of his best films, a work that feels a bit like Agatha Christie, a bit like Shakespeare, and even a bit like Samurai…

Kwaidan (4K Restoration)

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning “ghost story,” this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is…

Hope (2026)

A haunting South Korean thriller about fear, conflict, and cosmic disaster

Resident Evil (2026)

Zach Cregger heads to Raccoon City

Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger

One of the most anticipated rock 'n' roll comebacks of all time

Brailled It

In-person Q&A with Co-Director David Grabias moderated by Filmmaker and Activist Jim Lebrecht! Every year, the best under-18 braille readers and writers in the English-speaking world come to Los…

The Oldest Person In The World

Filmmaker Sam Green will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A at all three screenings! KQED’s Alexis Madrigal moderates following the Sun, 9/20, 12:30pm show! Kronos Quartet’s David Harrington…

Practical Magic 2

There's still a little witch in all of us

Barbara Forever

EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY KRISTEN STEWART WINNER, TEDDY AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY, 2026 BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL Director Brydie O’Connor IN PERSON for Q&A on Friday, September 18 moderated by Documentary…

Ghost in the Shell (Subtitled)

A mind-bending, boundary-transcending futuristic sci-fi thriller

Bellissima

4K Digital Restoration

Luchino Visconti is in an unusually comic mode for this satire on urban life and movieland ambition. The incomparable Anna Magnani plays a mother trying to launch her young daughter in show business.

The Cycle of Love

Director Orlando von Einsiedel IN PERSON in conversation with filmmakers Dayna Goldfine & Dan Geller, Wed, Sept 9!! In 1977, PK, a 23-year-old Delhi street artist from a poor, ‘untouchable’ family…

Kwaidan (4K Restoration)

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning “ghost story,” this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is…

The Last Waltz

4K Digital Restoration

Martin Scorsese’s loving portrait of The Band’s farewell concert in San Francisco is “arguably the most beautiful of rock movies, while the musical highlights . . . still astound” (Time Out). With guest appearances by…

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Visionary director Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) presents a new kind of horror remake in TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. Bursting with imagination and surreal wit…

Tony

Late nights, lies, and lobster – don't miss TONY in theaters

Practical Magic 2

There's still a little witch in all of us

Hope (2026)

A haunting South Korean thriller about fear, conflict, and cosmic disaster

Resident Evil (2026)

Zach Cregger heads to Raccoon City

Welcome Space Brothers

The unbelievable story of Ruth Norman and the Unarius Academy of Science.

Ghost in the Shell (Dubbed)

A mind-bending, boundary-transcending futuristic sci-fi thriller

Barbara Forever

EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY KRISTEN STEWART WINNER, TEDDY AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY, 2026 BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL Director Brydie O’Connor IN PERSON for Q&A on Friday, September 18 moderated by Documentary…

Batch ’81

Freshman Sid Lucero (Mark Gil, in his breakout performance), desperately wants to join the Alpha Kappa Omega fraternity. Over the course of a gruelling initiation process, he goes through every…

Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger

One of the most anticipated rock 'n' roll comebacks of all time

Crunchyroll Anime Nights Sneak Peek (9/21/2026)

Catch never-before-seen episodes on the big screen before they debut in October

Filipiñana

Director Rafael Manuel in person for introduction and Q&A moderated by Ali El-Sadany, editor of FilmSlop, on Saturday, September 5 (at rush). Presented by FiliKula Amid stifling heat and pervasive…

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Visionary director Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) presents a new kind of horror remake in TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. Bursting with imagination and surreal wit…

Tony

Late nights, lies, and lobster – don't miss TONY in theaters

Hope (2026)

A haunting South Korean thriller about fear, conflict, and cosmic disaster

Practical Magic 2

There's still a little witch in all of us

Resident Evil (2026)

Zach Cregger heads to Raccoon City

Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger

One of the most anticipated rock 'n' roll comebacks of all time

Ghost in the Shell (Subtitled)

A mind-bending, boundary-transcending futuristic sci-fi thriller

Barbara Forever

EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY KRISTEN STEWART WINNER, TEDDY AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY, 2026 BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL Director Brydie O’Connor IN PERSON for Q&A on Friday, September 18 moderated by Documentary…

The Oldest Person In The World

Filmmaker Sam Green will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A at all three screenings! KQED’s Alexis Madrigal moderates following the Sun, 9/20, 12:30pm show! Kronos Quartet’s David Harrington…

Filipiñana

Director Rafael Manuel in person for introduction and Q&A moderated by Ali El-Sadany, editor of FilmSlop, on Saturday, September 5 (at rush). Presented by FiliKula Amid stifling heat and pervasive…

Event Horizon

A haunted ship. A missing crew. An infinite evil.

Tony

Late nights, lies, and lobster – don't miss TONY in theaters

Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger

One of the most anticipated rock 'n' roll comebacks of all time

Resident Evil (2026)

Zach Cregger heads to Raccoon City

Hope (2026)

A haunting South Korean thriller about fear, conflict, and cosmic disaster

Practical Magic 2

There's still a little witch in all of us

Tony

Late nights, lies, and lobster – don't miss TONY in theaters

Basic Instinct

Paul Verhoeven's sleazy & shocking erotic thriller

Ghost in the Shell: 30th Anniversary Remaster

“My codename is Project 2501, and I am a life form that was born in a sea of information.” In the year 2029, the world looks like a hybridization of Hong Kong, Tokyo, and New York…

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

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 woods, openly queer but intensely private…

It Will Be Better Before and Temo Re

Keto Kipiani’s It Will Be Better Before revisits images filmed five years earlier and begins a new correspondence with her then-codirector, Nicolas Kunisz. Temo Re, Anka Gujabidze’s poignant photo adventure shot in Tbilisi, reveals the…

Mysterious Skin (4K Restoration)

Co-presented by Frameline. At the age of eight, Kansas youngsters Neil and Brian played on the same little league baseball team. Now, ten years later, the two boys couldn’t be more different.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Visionary director Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) presents a new kind of horror remake in TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. Bursting with imagination and surreal wit…

Capone Cries A Lot

Seijun Suzuki's kaleidoscopic vivisection of Americana.

Primetime

Robert Pattinson stars in this thriller about To Catch a Predator

American Doctor

Co-presented by the Arab Film & Media Institute (AFMI) and the Jewish Film Institute From Oscar®-nominated and Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker Poh Si Teng, American Doctor follows three American…

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

“A near-death experience sparks an existential and sexual awakening for taciturn shop owner Etero in Elene Naveriani’s enchanting film” (Arjun Sajip, Sight and Sound).

Re:Vision: My Name Ain’t Suzie

Video introduction by director Angie Chen In My Name Ain’t Suzie, Angie Chen offers a powerful rebuke to the colonial imagination of films such as The World of Suzie Wong (1960)…

Gandahar (4K Restoration)

The long-awaited 4K restoration of René Laloux’s final masterpiece reveals one of animation’s most astonishing science-fiction visions. An entire civilization must confront its destiny in alternative…

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

A man's gotta have a code.

Primetime

Robert Pattinson stars in this thriller about To Catch a Predator

A Tunnel

An old railway platform in a remote valley of Georgia suddenly becomes a site for change in this wonderful documentary about the New Silk Road, a high-speed rail development project between China and Europe.

Re:Vision: Valley of the Bees

Introduced by Kelly Wiggin While his name lacks the recognition of other Eastern European filmmakers, writer / director / occasional actor František Vláčil could be considered among the greatest…

Re:Vision: Dakan

Dakan follows two young men, Manga and Sori, as they navigate young love of a kind their families cannot abide. Seen by Manga’s mother as a mental illness, and Sori’s father as a weakness to overcome…

Dead Souls

Composer Dan Wool, Animator Tom “Gibby” Gibbons, and VFX Supervisor Ken Rogerson IN PERSON for the Sunday, Sept 27 show! For his directorial swan song, Alex Cox (Repo Man, Straight To Hell) stars in…

Dire Duplicity

The latest film from Neil Breen.

Floating Features: Bullitt

An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection. About Floating Features San Francisco Legacy Businesses Red and…

Taming the Garden

The opening shot of this striking environmental tale captures a tree as tall as a fifteen-story building floating on a barge across the vast Black Sea. Its destination lies in a garden countless miles away, privately owned by a wealthy and…

Filipiñana

Director Rafael Manuel in person for introduction and Q&A moderated by Ali El-Sadany, editor of FilmSlop, on Saturday, September 5 (at rush). Presented by FiliKula Amid stifling heat and pervasive…

Re:Vision: The Outcasts

Written and directed by Robert Wynne-Simmons (writer of folk-horror masterpiece Blood on Satan’s Claw), and starring legendary Irish actors Cyril Cusack and Mick Lally, The Outcasts was the first…

Mystery Voyage

A 1990s kung fu fantasia from Hong Kong

Re:Vision: I Am With A Monk

This screening will open with Len Lye’s animated short film SWINGING THE LAMBETH WALK. The film was restored by San Francisco Film Preserve and scanned utilizing Scan2Screen’s multispectral scanning…

Georgian Cinema Now Symposium—Activism in Authoritarian Times: The Republic of Georgia as a Case Study

Free Admission Copresented by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at UC Berkeley Promotional partner: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at…

Primetime

Robert Pattinson stars in this thriller about To Catch a Predator

The Dreamers And I

Director Kenji Yamamoto and Producer Nancy Kelly in person for Q&A after the screening! Three immigrant entrepreneurs arrive in the U.S. to make their high-tech dreams come true. Carlos de la Lama…

Re:Vision: Araya

Margot Benacerraf’s extraordinary Araya, from the moment of its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959 (where it shared the FIPRESCI award with Hiroshima mon amour), was immediately heralded as…

Yourself and Yours

See Hong Sang-soo’s “Yourself and Yours” (2016) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

The Samurai and the Prisoner

Co-presented by the Japan Society of Northern California “Kurosawa has made one of his best films, a work that feels a bit like Agatha Christie, a bit like Shakespeare, and even a bit like Samurai…

Give It a Shot

A global race to develop a new male contraceptive.

Re:Vision: The Dislocation of Amber

In The Dislocation of Amber, director Hussein Shariffe uses abandoned areas of the Sudanese city of Suakin to stage abstracted, ambiguous performances. His actors move through corners, windows…

Re:Vision: Gehenu Lamai (The Girls)

Sumitra Peries’s Gehenu Lamai [The Girls] —the first feature directed by a woman in Sri Lanka—is a close observation of a life shrinking. So much weight is placed on girls worldwide, and the girls of…

Dead Souls

Composer Dan Wool, Animator Tom “Gibby” Gibbons, and VFX Supervisor Ken Rogerson IN PERSON for the Sunday, Sept 27 show! For his directorial swan song, Alex Cox (Repo Man, Straight To Hell) stars in…

Crossing

A Georgian woman heads to Istanbul in search of her estranged trans niece in this elegant, politically resonant feature from Swedish Georgian director Levan Akin.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Visionary director Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) presents a new kind of horror remake in TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. Bursting with imagination and surreal wit…

Re:Vision: Lepers & Sex AKA Santo vs The Riders of Terror

Introduced by Peter Conheim This screening will open with Len Lye’s animated short film THE BIRTH OF THE ROBOT. The film was restored by San Francisco Film Preserve and scanned utilizing Scan2Screen’s…

NOFX: 40 Years of Fuckin' Up

The history of one of punk’s loudest and most stubbornly independent bands

Re:Vision: Tri

A landmark from the golden age of New Yugoslav Film (1963-1973), a compelling and under appreciated (at least in America) chapter in global film history. Aleksandar Petrović’s gripping Tri [Three]…

Primetime

Robert Pattinson stars in this thriller about To Catch a Predator

Re:Vision: The Waiting Room

Introduced by director Karen Sperling Filmmaker Karen Sperling writes, directs, produces, and stars in The Waiting Room (1973), a groundbreaking film created by a 35-woman film crew working in the…

English Teacher and Bakhmaro 2050

These two creative documentaries that ruminate on issues facing Georgian society are both set far from city life. English Teacher presents the challenges of the “linguistic revolution” initiative, while Bakhmaro 2050 is a meditation on the…

Nacho Libre

He's not lean. He's not mean. He's nacho average hero.

Dead Souls

Composer Dan Wool, Animator Tom “Gibby” Gibbons, and VFX Supervisor Ken Rogerson IN PERSON for the Sunday, Sept 27 show! For his directorial swan song, Alex Cox (Repo Man, Straight To Hell) stars in…

Re:Vision: The Garden of Eden

Live musical accompaniment by the Club Foot Quintet. Lewis Milestone’s extensive career was already at his peak when he directed The Garden of Eden in 1928. One year earlier he directed what would win…

An Incomplete Day in the History of Georgia 10.06.93.

Archival video documentation from a 1993 parliamentary session related to the introduction of the Georgian coupon, a national currency to replace the Russian ruble, offers a history lesson in the sometimes fleeting nature of democracy.

Filipiñana

Director Rafael Manuel in person for introduction and Q&A moderated by Ali El-Sadany, editor of FilmSlop, on Saturday, September 5 (at rush). Presented by FiliKula Amid stifling heat and pervasive…

Re:Vision: 8 Girls in a Boat

Introduced by David Stenn At an all-girls school in Switzerland, Christa Storm (Dorothy Wilson) is a star pupil and stroke seat on the rowing team, but her clandestine affair with a young chemist from…

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

A hitman with a conscience and everything to lose

The Cycle of Love

Director Orlando von Einsiedel IN PERSON in conversation with filmmakers Dayna Goldfine & Dan Geller, Wed, Sept 9!! In 1977, PK, a 23-year-old Delhi street artist from a poor, ‘untouchable’ family…

Re:Vision: Melody of Murder

This screening will open with Len Lye’s animated short film KALEIDOSCOPE. The film was restored by San Francisco Film Preserve and scanned utilizing Scan2Screen’s multispectral scanning technology.

Memorizing Alison

25th Anniversary of Coffee & Language! JP Allen, writers and cast members IN PERSON Best known for his “audacious and skillful” (SF Chronicle) independent films, SF writer/director JP Allen…

The Birdcage

Robin Williams and Nathan Lane try to play it straight

Staff Pick: A Welcome Distraction

Isabel H’s Staff Pick! Ernest (Simon Farrell) is a wayward twenty-something living in Vancouver. Stuck in a rut after a breakup and grieving a recent family tragedy, he does whatever he can to avoid…

Filipiñana

Director Rafael Manuel in person for introduction and Q&A moderated by Ali El-Sadany, editor of FilmSlop, on Saturday, September 5 (at rush). Presented by FiliKula Amid stifling heat and pervasive…

Gandahar (4K Restoration)

The long-awaited 4K restoration of René Laloux’s final masterpiece reveals one of animation’s most astonishing science-fiction visions. An entire civilization must confront its destiny in alternative…

Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon

The long-awaited sequel to the 2015 cult classic

Ghost in the Shell: 30th Anniversary Remaster

“My codename is Project 2501, and I am a life form that was born in a sea of information.” In the year 2029, the world looks like a hybridization of Hong Kong, Tokyo, and New York…

Ice Cream Man (1995)

I scream, you scream, we all scream for the...

Our Sister Hedy

Included with admission.

Self-Portrait Along the Borderline

Included with admission.

American Doctor

Co-presented by the Arab Film & Media Institute (AFMI) and the Jewish Film Institute From Oscar®-nominated and Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker Poh Si Teng, American Doctor follows three American…

D.E.B.S.

Sapphic Cinema Social Club at The Roxie. A Quarterly Showcase of Classic + New Queer Cinema, Culture, and Community. Sapphic Cinema Social Club is a high-energy, quarterly event series designed to…

The Terminator

James Cameron's pop masterpiece, newly restored

Barbara Forever

EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY KRISTEN STEWART WINNER, TEDDY AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY, 2026 BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL Director Brydie O’Connor IN PERSON for Q&A on Friday, September 18 moderated by Documentary…

Mysterious Skin (4K Restoration)

Co-presented by Frameline. At the age of eight, Kansas youngsters Neil and Brian played on the same little league baseball team. Now, ten years later, the two boys couldn’t be more different.

Prime Cut

Lee Marvin vs. Gene Hackman in a peculiar American crime picture.

Dead Souls

Composer Dan Wool, Animator Tom “Gibby” Gibbons, and VFX Supervisor Ken Rogerson IN PERSON for the Sunday, Sept 27 show! For his directorial swan song, Alex Cox (Repo Man, Straight To Hell) stars in…

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Schwarzenegger is a killing machine, but he’s nice now

Black Swan

Nina (Natalie Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life is completely consumed by dance. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel) casts her as the lead in Swan…

Black Swan + Perfect Blue

Presented by Spoke Art Gallery as part of their ongoing series of curated alternative film posters. Featuring two new limited edition screen prints by Vincent Aseo (Philippines) for Perfect Blue and…

Italianamerican and American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince

Two fascinating documentaries offer portals to the heart of what inspires Martin Scorsese: the lives and stories of real-life characters, like his parents and his friend and colleague Steven Prince.

Perfect Blue

“Who are…you?” Mima Kirigoe, a former pop idol, makes a bold transition into acting, but her reinvention begins to fracture her sense of identity. As a stalker shadows her and a series of murders…

Dire Duplicity

The latest film from Neil Breen.

Chronovisor

An armchair mystery in which the life of a reclusive academic collides with the story of a clandestine technology that can photograph the past. While writing a monograph on historical theories of…

Traces of Home

Filmmaker Colette Ghunim in person for post-screening Q&A on Friday, October 2! Filmed over five years and featuring evocative animation and archival footage, Traces of Home is a meditation on memory…

New People: Hausu

This screening will take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie Hausu? As a psychedelic ghost tale?

Floating Features: Jaws

When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it. About Floating Features San…

Wet Sand

“Set against the backdrop of church-sanctioned, far-right political protests attacking LGBTQ anti-discrimination laws, director/cowriter [Elene] Naveriani works steadfastly to break the cycle through a collective reckoning that…

New People: Funeral Parade Of Roses

This screening will take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. One of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s, director Toshio Matsumoto’s…

Don’t Play With Fire

Now presented in a new 2k restoration supervised by the director himself. Don’t Play with Fire (aka Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind), directed by Tsui Hark (A Better Tomorrow), is one of the…

Ashima

Director Kenji Tsukamoto in person for Q&A! ASHIMA follows elite rock climber Ashima Shiraishi as she travels to South Africa to attempt to become the youngest climber to master one of the world’s…

My Undesirable Friends: Part 2—Exile

Presented with 60-min intermission

Forced to flee their own country, independent Russian journalists continue to chronicle Vladimir Putin’s war on free speech—and Ukraine—in this vivid follow-up to Julie Loktev’s acclaimed 2024 documentary.

A New Leaf

See Elaine May’s “A New Leaf” (1971) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Chronovisor

An armchair mystery in which the life of a reclusive academic collides with the story of a clandestine technology that can photograph the past. While writing a monograph on historical theories of…

New People: Hausu

This screening will take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie Hausu? As a psychedelic ghost tale?

New People: Funeral Parade Of Roses

This screening will take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. One of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s, director Toshio Matsumoto’s…

Blue Velvet

David Lynch vs. the idyllic America that never really existed

Band of Outsiders

Digital Restoration

Anna Karina, Sami Frey, and Claude Brasseur are unlikely burglars in Jean-Luc Godard’s “reverie of a gangster movie” (Pauline Kael). “Band of Outsiders shows Godard at his most amusing, and that is no small thing”…

Indie Film Screenings + TECH TALK: Filmmaking

Presented as part of Nexus, join us for a screening of independent films and a discussion.

Ghost in the Cell

Rival gangs unite to battle a ghost at a high-security prison.

La Gradiva

French teenagers take a summer class trip to Naples, Italy, in this marvelously subtle, mysterious, and intelligent coming-of-age film. Marine Atlan’s feature debut garnered the Cannes Film Festival Critics Week Best Picture award.

Beetlejuice

We dare you to say his name three times

Union County

Two brothers go through rehab in a rural town hit hard by the opioid epidemic

The History of Concrete

John Wilson uses the Hallmark movie formula to make a documentary about concrete

The Silence of the Lambs

Do you still hear the lambs screaming?

Our Sister Hedy

Included with admission.

New People: The Last First: Winter K2

This screening will take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post street in Japantown. Followed by a post-screening Q&A with director Amir Bar-Lev K2’s first winter ascent claimed 5 lives…

Union County

Two brothers go through rehab in a rural town hit hard by the opioid epidemic

Wrathbone

International rock star Nigel Wrathbone had everything: money and fame, unbridled hedonism, creative freedom. Then he died and went to Hell. Part horror-comedy, part mockumentary…

Zoé Presents: Memorex + Rexsexex y Más

6 GNP Stadiums in Mexico City. Over 380,000 souls. What happened across those six nights was far more than an unprecedented record for Mexican rock; it was a historic and intimate gathering between a…

Ghost in the Cell

Rival gangs unite to battle a ghost at a high-security prison.

SpookFest 2026

Now in its tenth year, SpookFest is the film festival that goes bump in the night! We scavenged the crypts, summoned the demons, and took all the candy from the “Take 1” bowls to bring you a night of…

Union Town

Legendary documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple completes the workers’ trilogy she began fifty years ago with this vivid, on-the-ground look at often rancorous labor struggles in the era of delivery apps and the gig economy.

When a Witness Recants

Former lawyer and veteran documentarian Dawn Porter revisits the case of the Harlem Park Three, whose wrongful convictions as teenagers led to thirty-six years behind bars and exposed profound failures within the American justice system.

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

A hitman with a conscience and everything to lose

New People: Never After Dark

This screening will take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. Never After Dark follows Airi, a wandering medium who spends her life guiding restless spirits out of the…

Elephants in the Fog

In the forests of southern Nepal, a mother searches for her missing daughter as wild elephants roam the night in a haunting and tender story of chosen family, belonging, and survival.

Floating Features: Top Gun

Two rising but reckless Naval officers – Pete “Maverick” Mitchell and Nick “Goose” Bradshaw – are recruited for Top Gun; an elite US Flying school for advanced fighter pilots. There…

Hellraiser (1987)

Demon to some. Angel to others.

3rd i 2026: Avie Luthra

For Opening Night, 3rd i Festival is thrilled to honor the creative genius of award-winning British-Indian director and screenwriter Avie Luthra with a showcase of his comedic, nuanced, complex…

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

A hitman with a conscience and everything to lose

3rd i 2026: Sand City

In this arthouse experimental film, director Mahde Hasan explores Dhaka, Bangladesh, where the landscape and its inhabitants share a profound connection: sand. Cinematographer Mathieu Giombini paints…

Sad Girlz

While preparing for an upcoming swimming trip to Brazil, best friends La Maestra and Paula see their bright futures upended one fateful night. First-time feature director Fernanda Tovar crafts a moving coming-of-age drama in this Berlinale…

The Music Room

See Satyajit Ray’s “The Music Room (Jalsaghar)” (1958) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

3rd i 2026: TechnoCats

At India’s elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), a “Cat” is someone who aces everything. These engineering schools have produced the CEOs of Google, Microsoft, IBM, and other tech giants.

Minotaur

Andrey Zvyagintsev’s first feature in a decade, this chilling reimagining of La femme infidèle and Unfaithful masterfully explores the depths of corruption in Vladimir Putin’s Russia through a story of crime and infidelity.

3rd i 2026: The Great Shamsuddin Family

A witty, razor-sharp, heartwarming social satire, acclaimed filmmaker Anusha Rizvi directs her latest tour de force (her first film, PEEPLI LIVE, was India’s offering to the Academy Awards and the…

New People: Never After Dark

This screening will take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. Never After Dark follows Airi, a wandering medium who spends her life guiding restless spirits out of the…

On Behalf of My Son

After losing her son in a tragic accident, a mother travels from one family to another carrying an apology that may be impossible to accept, in Gabriel Martins’s delicate, deeply human meditation on grief and forgiveness.

3rd i 2026: Lali

Darkly comic and colorful, Sarmad Khoosat (producer, JOYLAND) directs a layered thriller in which ghosts walk among the living and prophecies weigh heavily on a young Punjabi couple and their families.

3rd i 2026: Eternal Trees, Eternal Mountains

In 1998, American student Harsha ventures into the forests of South India to study tigers. Over the next two decades, he returns with his historian friend Chris to the villages of the Chenchu people…

Jean-Luc Godard's Early Short Films

A glimpse of Jean-Luc Godard in the process of becoming Godard. This program of the director’s first shorts includes Opération béton, All the Boys Are Called Patrick, Une histoire d’eau, and Charlotte et son Jules.

3rd i 2026: Ghost School

A magical, sweet, and visually evocative narrative, British-Pakistani director Seemab Gul captures a child’s pursuit of answers in a community weighed down by fear of ghosts and misinformation.

Our Sister Hedy

Included with admission.

River of Life LGBTQ+

River of Life LGBTQ+, directed by drama therapist Grace Walcott, is a multigenerational LGBTQ+ documentary that follows 13 queer participants of diverse races, ages, and identities through a 10-week…

3rd i 2026: The Loyal Man

Preceded by the short film HOMEBODY, directed by Shruti Parekh. Audience favorite, French-Sri Lankan Lawrence Valin (LITTLE JAFFNA) directs this riveting and romantic gangster thriller set in the…

Showgirls

Paul Verhoeven's high glam & camp satire

New People: Never After Dark

This screening will take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. Never After Dark follows Airi, a wandering medium who spends her life guiding restless spirits out of the…

Tenor: My Name is Pati

Pene Pati & filmmaker Rebecca Tansley IN PERSON Sun, Oct 11! Tenor: My Name is Pati, a new documentary that tells the remarkable story of Samoan tenor brothers and former SF Opera Adler Fellows…

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

A hitman with a conscience and everything to lose

The Dreamed Adventure

A Bulgarian archaeologist investigates the disappearance of a former lover in this absorbing Cannes Film Festival prizewinner. German director Valeska Grisebach worked with a nonprofessional cast to create a slow-burn thriller with the…

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

A hitman with a conscience and everything to lose

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Get revved up for the nerve-shredding horror classic

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

A hitman with a conscience and everything to lose

Ginger Snaps

They don't call it the curse for nothing

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

A hitman with a conscience and everything to lose

Hanging By A Wire

Director Mohammed Ali Naqvi on site for a post-screening Q&A. On the morning of August 22, 2023, eight passengers – six of them schoolboys – board a makeshift cable car for what should be a routine…

Remembering Harun Farocki

This is a new restoration of Claudia von Alemann and Reinold E. Thiel’s documentary on the legendary experimental film festival of Knokke, Belgium, featuring political filmmaker Harun Farocki in action. Shown with three short films by…

Collaborations with Cairo’s Cimatheque

Stefanie Schulte Strathaus has worked closely with Cairo’s Cimatheque – Alternative Film Centre, and she shares two recent restorations completed by the archive, as well as a selection of Egyptian home movies.

Ken Russell's The Devils

Experience the uncut version, newly restored and remastered in 4K

Ken Russell's The Devils

Experience the uncut version, newly restored and remastered in 4K

Mosse Lecture–Stefanie Schulte Strathaus: Curating Living Archives

Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 2:30 PM.

Stefanie Schulte Strathaus discusses her work and methodology in the area of curatorial research and archival practice as Artistic Director of Arsenal…

New People: Jigoku

This screening will take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. Shocking, outrageous, and poetic, Jigoku (Hell, a.k.a. The Sinners of Hell) is the most innovative…

Floating Features: The Game

After a wealthy banker is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, his life is turned upside down when he becomes unable to distinguish between the game and reality.

Hellbound: Hellraiser II

Clive Barker takes us on a decent into Hell

Raging Bull

4K Digital Restoration

The biography of boxer Jake LaMotta becomes a visceral meditation on existential suffering. “A fusion of Hollywood genre with personal vision . . . closer to poetry than pulp. Its sculptural weight can only be…

3rd Annual Graveyard Shift

With our Arthouse 50 series this year, The Roxie is celebrating five decades as an art house cinema. Now we’re bringing the celebration to our 3rd Annual all-night horror movie marathon…

Ken Russell's The Devils

Experience the uncut version, newly restored and remastered in 4K

ZYZZYVA Movie Matinee with Ingrid Rojas Contreras: Amarcord (35mm)

Co-presented by Zyzzyva Magazine and Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival This year’s Litquake festival will take place October 8th-24th! For more information about Litquake’s festival and year…

La maison des bois: Episodes 1–3

4K Digital Restoration

Maurice Pialat’s seven-part series La maison des bois, considered by many to be the director’s best film, is finally available for theatrical exhibition in this new 4K restoration.

The Ceremony

See Nagisa Ōshima’s “The Ceremony” (1971) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

New People: First They Came for My College

This screening will take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. Followed by a post-screening Q&A with director Patrick Bresnan FIRST THEY CAME FOR MY COLLEGE tells the…

New People: Jigoku (4K Restoration)

This screening will take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. Shocking, outrageous, and poetic, Jigoku (Hell, a.k.a. The Sinners of Hell) is the most innovative…

White Nights

4K Digital Restoration

Marcello Mastroianni stars in a romantic, sublimely artificial adaptation of a Fyodor Dostoyevsky story about people drifting along crossing, doubling paths.

Ken Russell's The Devils

Experience the uncut version, newly restored and remastered in 4K

Carter Country

Post-screening Q&A with special guests to be announced. Film Director and Writer Bobby Buccallato shares his documentary film debut of Carter Country, which follows the two-year journey of America’s…

New People: Jigoku (4K Restoration)

This screening will take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. Shocking, outrageous, and poetic, Jigoku (Hell, a.k.a. The Sinners of Hell) is the most innovative…

Shaihu Umar

Digital Restoration

Shaihu Umar by Adamu Halilu is an epic story set in northern Nigeria at the end of the nineteenth century. Long thought lost, copies of the film were found in 2016, which led to this restoration by Arsenal Filminstitut.

The King of Comedy

A crazed would-be stand-up comic (Robert De Niro) becomes obsessed with a talk-show host (Jerry Lewis) in Martin Scorsese’s prescient meditation on the American cult of celebrity.