Next weekend around San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley: Friday, September 25 to Sunday, September 27.

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…

Friday Nights at OMCA with Los Tranquilos

Live Music by Los Tranquilos, Disco Dance Lesson with Soulchild, Caja Mágica’s All-Vinyl DJ Set, Bike East Bay Community Tabling, and Gallery Chats Step into an evening of nostalgic rhythms, movement, and community connection this Friday…

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…

Opening Celebration for “The Body Politic” and “Prototypes and Provocations”

Meet the artists and curator, enjoy cocktails at our cash bar, and be among the first to see new work at YBCA.

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…

CAIN CULTO

Doors 8pm

Rose City Band

Doors 8pm

Six Sex

Doors 8pm

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

Contemplative Salt Bath

Included with admission. Space is limited; first come, first served.

Artist Beatriz Escobar leads participants through a contemplative salt bath experience, drawing inspiration from her floating practice to invite reflection on alternatives…

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…

Conversation: Rasha Salti and Natalia Brizuela

Tickets required. Gallery admission included with ticket purchase.

Rasha Salti joins cocurator Natalia Brizuela to discuss Palestinian–Chilean solidarity as disobedience in the arts, and wider transnational solidarity and artist networks…

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…

Rusty Chains - A Tribute to Chris Cornell

Doors 7:30pm

EMO NITE at Rickshaw Stop - San Francisco, CA

Doors 9pm

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…

Rose City Band

Doors 8pm

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

Wrenching News Workshops

Included with admission.

Join artist Julia Goodman in creating Wrenching News, a collaborative artwork featured in Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing, through the process of twisting and knotting newspapers according to Hassinger’s…

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…

Exhibition Tour: Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing

Included with admission.

Graduate students from the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art offer exhibition tours on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15…

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…

Dollygrass, A Tribute ft. Godman, Tucker, Lewis & Gates

Doors 6pm

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…

Melt-Banana

Doors 7pm

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.

Portola Presents Club Cheetah with JT

Doors 10pm