SF FILM SOCIETY

Championing the world's finest films & filmmakers through programs anchored in & inspired by the spirit & values of the Bay Area. Presenter of the longest-running film festival in the Americas, SFIFF.

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BLOOD SIMPLE, debut of Joel and Ethan Coen, 1984.

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Dagmar Weaver-Madsen, cinematographer of SFFS-supported film and SFIFF58 alum UNEXPECTED.

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Revisiting the Nightmare films is actually what turned me around on 80s studio horror. One felt there was actually something at stake in these killings (and in the mean-spirited jokes around them)... They are still so disturbing in unobvious ways.

SFFS Executive Director Noah Cowan on the films of Wes Craven

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Few festivals are more suited to their city than the SF International. It's clearly programmed by those who love film for people who love film.

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Happy 66th to America’s Gigolo, recipient of SFIFF58’s Peter J. Owens Award.

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John Cassavetes & Gena Rowlands at the 27th San Francisco International Film Festival. Photo by Pamela Gentile.

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SFIFF58 Opening Night film STEVE JOBS: THE MAN IN THE MACHINE coming soon to the Bay Area.

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Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s THE TRIBE (SFIFF58). Coming to Bay Area theaters soon.

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Spike Lee & Danny Glover at the 29th San Francisco International Film Festival. Photo by Pamela Gentile.

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Christian Bale and Todd Haynes in a promo shoot for VELVET GOLDMINE. See Haynes in San Francisco September 24.

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Crystal Moselle, director of THE WOLFPACK, at SFIFF58. Film rolls tonight at the Castro Theatre. Photo by Pat Mazzera.

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Happy 79th to the Sundance Kid. Recipient of SFIFF52’s Peter J. Owens Award.

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A lot of filmmakers are stepping up to the plate and realizing we have a social responsibility not just to entertain but to make people think.

Director Ryan Coogler, whose film FRUITVALE STATION received two SFFS / KRF Filmmaking Grants in 2012

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An intimate moment with Marlon Brando — one of many as seen in LISTEN TO ME MARLON, a favorite from the 58th San Francisco International Film Festival. Now playing in the Bay Area. Click through to learn which other SFIFF alums are currently in theaters.

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The US director is continuing to expose the stories of Indonesia's past atrocities, and sees film as a conduit to subjects investigative journalism no longer has the resources to reach.

Great interview with Joshua Oppenheimer about his new movie and #SFIFF alum, THE LOOK OF SILENCE.

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TONIGHT at 6:30 at Landmark's Clay Theatre, we're screening SXSW Grand Jury and Audience award-winning film KRISHA with director Trey Edward Shults in attendance! A quietly intense, character-driven drama, this debut drops the viewer into a Thanksgiving gathering bubbling under with potential emotional hazard. Don't miss this powerful film, in which Shults' real-life aunt delivers a brilliant performance as the slightly frazzled, slightly troubled titular character Krisha.