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A documentary following Silicon Valley entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes during her final month before incarceration. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss.
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Gotham street kid turned Hollywood leading man Matt Hagen is disfigured by a crime boss, then takes an experimental treatment that restores his face but unmoors his mind, sending him on a destructive quest for revenge.
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A mocked seaside fisherwoman takes a husband made of wicker, and their happiness scandalises her conservative village. With Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgard.
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Prue and her schoolmate Curtis are pulled into an enchanted forest of magical beings, loyal companions and dangerous foes, on an urgent mission to recover Prue's kidnapped baby brother from a flock of crows controlled by a mysterious woman named Alexandra.
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Ryu and Ken, once close and now estranged, are recruited by Chun-Li into a fighting tournament, where they uncover a conspiracy that forces them to face each other and their own pasts.
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A year after his father's death, Jay Gardiner dives off the central California coast to recover his remains and is swallowed whole by a sperm whale. With about an hour of air left, he has to draw on everything his father taught him to get out alive.
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The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, learn that their prospects of marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune.
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After losing their parents, Mihai and Lisbeth Gheorghiu move from Romania with their children to a remote Norwegian village near Lisbeth's family. They grow close to their neighbours, the Halbergs, until their peace unravels when their daughter Elia arrives at school covered in bruises.
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In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel's calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are revealed by the people who designed and operated them.
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In seventeenth-century France, a worldly priest is accused of witchcraft by a nun consumed by her obsession with him, and church and state officials seize on the charges for their own political ends.
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An Artificial Friend named Klara watches the human world from a store window until an ailing teenage girl chooses her, in Taika Waititi's adaptation of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel.
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Medical courier Bryan unwittingly finds himself fighting for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
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Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island. Martin McDonagh's dark comedy pairs John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell as longtime partners reckoning with their pasts and present conspiracies.
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A young New Yorker travels to Switzerland to persuade Patricia Highsmith to write one last Tom Ripley novel, and his persistence curdles into menace. Helen Mirren plays Highsmith.
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Two years after the war left Japan in ruins, the country is rebuilding when a new threat arrives to shatter its fragile peace. Takashi Yamazaki's follow-up to Godzilla Minus One.
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Young Bela forms a relationship with a sinister entity in her home that looks uncannily like her own mother, drawing her into a terrifying and increasingly dark world.
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Ryu and Ken, once close and now estranged, are recruited by Chun-Li into a fighting tournament, where they uncover a conspiracy that forces them to face each other and their own pasts.
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In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history, turning an undercover investigation into one of the most controversial cultural phenomena of the decade.
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Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network.
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Lowen Ashleigh is hired by Jeremy Crawford to ghostwrite novels for his bestselling author wife Verity, who is unable to finish following an accident.
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A lonely, narcissistic aristocrat dupes a struggling, opportunistic director into filming her every move. Her obsession with the spotlight takes a surreal turn when she starts becoming invisible.
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After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, filmmaker John Wilson tries to use the same formula to sell a documentary about concrete.
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Eleanor Coppola's behind-the-scenes record of her daughter Sofia Coppola directing Marie Antoinette (2006), focused on the artistry and the obstacles facing a young woman at the helm of a period epic.
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A teenager named Sarah wishes her baby stepbrother away to the Goblins, then must enter a maze-like fantasy world to rescue him from the Goblin King.
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Latif, a devoutly religious hitman, struggles to balance work, faith and fatherhood. When his wife dies, he embarks on a desperate journey across Houston to protect his children, confronting the forces closing in around him – and the beliefs threatening to unravel within.
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A retired jailer goes undercover as a driver to protect his family from a crime syndicate widening its reach.
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After a harrowing plane crash, Special Forces officer James Belmont and his combat dog, Odin, find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Together, they are forced into a brutal fight for survival against the elements.
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A laid-off worker and his wife cross paths with a documentary filmmaker and her husband, and all four confront desires they have kept hidden. Lee Chang-dong's first feature in years.
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While celebrating their last night together, high school graduates and best friends Jo and Raissa stumble upon a mysterious portal that transports them to the fantastical island of Nakali. When they discover that the memories of their entire friendship are the price for returning home, Jo and Raissa must race to find a way to leave the island before they forget each other forever.
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Matt and Jay's plan to book a show at Toronto's Rivoli goes so badly wrong that they accidentally travel back to 2008.
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The Peanuts gang goes on a holiday adventure. Charlie Brown prepares for a party, Snoopy pursues the Red Baron, and Linus waits in a pumpkin patch for a miracle.
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A writer takes a winter caretaker job at a remote, isolated hotel with his family, and the isolation brings out a dark and unsettling force.
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Sian Heder's dramatization of Judy Heumann and the 1977 Section 504 sit-in, in which more than a hundred disability-rights protesters occupied a federal building to force the law to be enforced.
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The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's savior before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything.
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An amnesiac former Pakistani spy wakes up convinced he is a patriotic Indian counter-terrorism officer, and sets about defending the wrong country.
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Sofia Coppola's portrait of the Austrian archduchess who married the Dauphin of France at fifteen and was queen at nineteen, from the gilded boredom of Versailles to the eve of revolution. Shown in a 20th-anniversary 4K restoration.
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Ozzy Osbourne's farewell performance at Villa Park in Birmingham, filmed seventeen days before his death, with Black Sabbath reunited and tributes from the artists they inspired.
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When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
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Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to visit her aunt's ancestral house in the countryside. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.
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Three student filmmakers vanish in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while making a documentary about a local legend. Their footage is found a year later.
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Ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson, a couple who fell in love through the sport, set out to climb and ski the direct North Face of Everest — a line no one has skied.
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A year after her mother's murder, a teenager is stalked by a masked killer who turns the rules of horror movies into a deadly game.
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The crew of the commercial towing vessel Nostromo answers a distress signal and brings aboard a parasitic organism that begins killing them one by one.
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An anthology of four Japanese folk tales featuring a samurai's tragic marriage, a snowmaiden's rescue with hidden costs, a blind musician performing for ghosts, and a warrior glimpsed in a teacup reflection.
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After a flat tire, an engaged couple discovers an eerie mansion belonging to the flamboyant Dr. Frank-N-Furter, who unveils his latest creation through elaborate musical numbers.
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Sailor and Lula, a young couple in love, set off together to build a new life. Lula's mother, who strongly disapproves, hires hitmen to cut their surreal honeymoon short.
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The birth of a gymnastics team in Pakistan provides an inspiring spark of light for a small group of girls living on the margins of society.
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Fernando Valencia, a Quechua voice artist and Indigenous activist in Cusco, sets out to dub Disney's The Lion King into Quechua with his eight-year-old son Dylan, working from a homemade studio. What began as a viral hobby becomes a wider push for language justice and cultural reclamation.
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Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart hand-drawn Cartoon Saloon fable: a young apprentice hunter arrives in Kilkenny to help her father wipe out the last wolf pack, befriends a wild girl who runs with them, and discovers she is becoming the very thing she was sent to destroy.
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A poetic, emotionally expansive father-son story about Black family, grace, imagination, and the hope that love can transform even the most fragile relationships into something more healing and beautiful.
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AMC's monthly mystery preview: an unannounced, not-yet-released horror film screened in advance. Title revealed only at showtime.
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Set during a mysterious conflict, two survivors of an attack take refuge in a rural English cottage where a cryptic keeper insists they must never leave.
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The undersea Seatopians seize the robot Jet Jaguar and unleash the beetle-monster Megalon on Japan, leaving Godzilla to answer for the surface world.
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Alex Gibney's documentary examines Elon Musk's public image and the reach of his influence over technology, business and politics.
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After Acme products fail him one too many times in his dogged pursuit of the Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote decides to hire a billboard lawyer to sue the Acme Corporation.
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A quirky poodle breeder invites a broke college student to her remote ranch with the offer of research funding, and the arrangement turns out to have strings attached.
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A documentary on the resistance to Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, built from interviews with Twin Cities organizers and community leaders, street footage and footage of the January 23 mass strike. It examines how neighborhoods, workplaces and unions organized against repression, and is designed as a resource for organizers in other cities.
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Robb Moss filmed five friends over nearly fifty years, from their days as free-spirited Colorado River guides to their seventies, as they weigh the lives they chose.
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Kearny Street Workshop's annual APAture festival showcase of emerging Asian Pacific American artists, presented at the Roxie as a programme of short works rather than a single feature.
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A big-screen presentation of ENHYPEN's Blood Saga world tour, screened as a concert event rather than a feature film.
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Pollution has driven most of life online. An unhappy mother enrols in a virtual wellness programme and returns home to find a machine duplicate living in her place, setting off an unsettling investigation.
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A group of survivors barricades itself in a Pennsylvania farmhouse to escape a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that is overrunning the Northeast.
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A family discovers that the old burial ground behind their new Maine home gives back whatever is buried in it, in Mary Lambert's adaptation of Stephen King.
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Isabel feels strangely drawn to Dr. Palanca, the president of the country club where she works. However, after piecing together a violent picture of what lies beneath the club's pristine surface, she realizes that what began as an innocent infatuation is actually rooted in a sinister shared history.
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A day in the lives of a group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers, spent skating, drinking, partying and fighting. Larry Clark's 1995 debut.
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A newcomer to a Catholic school joins a group of teenage witches who use their powers against anyone who crosses them, including teachers, rivals, and interfering parents.
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A suburban family's house is overtaken by ghostly forces after a gateway to the afterlife opens in it, and they turn to parapsychologists to recover their abducted daughter.
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A group of Mexican migrants crossing the border on foot is hunted across the desert by an armed vigilante and his dog, and the crossing becomes a bare fight to survive. Gael Garcia Bernal and Jeffrey Dean Morgan star in Jonas Cuaron's stripped-down border thriller.
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The Kong family's four daughters navigate love and duty in 1950s Hong Kong: dutiful eldest Hilda keeps letting romance pass her by, second sister Helen wins the engineer that Hedy had introduced to Hilda, and the youngest leaves school chasing love. A Cathay studio classic, introduced by Paul Fonoroff.
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A 1959 alien experiment crash-lands on Earth and infects a fraternity member whose body is then frozen. Decades later two college pledges thaw him out, loosing parasitic slugs that turn the campus into zombies. Fred Dekker's cult horror-comedy.
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A vacationing entomologist is held captive in a poor seaside village, where he is forced to live with a woman who shovels sand for the villagers, and endures severe physical and psychological hardship.
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A documentary epic poem, shot in black and white across the United States between 2017 and 2021, observing an American nation divided against itself and asking whether the democratic experiment can survive. Screens at New People Cinema, 1746 Post Street, with a Q&A by co-director Eric Daniel Metzgar.
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Alison Reid's documentary on the decades-long friendship between wildlife artist Robert Bateman and biologist Bristol Foster, from their 1957 round-the-world Land Rover expedition to their reflections, now in their nineties, on protecting nature through art and science.
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A BAMPFA Alternative Visions programme pairing two works of archival recovery: A Missing Can of Film and Stop Genocide.
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A newcomer to a small town gets entangled with a local group of vampires, and the Frog brothers along with a band of unlikely allies set out to save him.
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A man leaves gang life behind for his girlfriend, but is soon drawn back into violence.
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Chris visits his white girlfriend's family for a weekend upstate and reads their over-accommodating manner as awkwardness about the relationship, until a series of disturbing discoveries leads somewhere far worse.
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Episodes four to seven of Maurice Pialat's 1971 television series La maison des bois, following children boarded with a forest ranger's family in rural France during the First World War. Presented in BAMPFA's Special Screenings series.
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Julia Loktev follows the Russian independent journalists of Part I after they leave the country, rebuilding their lives and their reporting in exile. The Roxie presents Chapters 1 to 3 of the full work.
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Jordan Peele's horror film in which a family's beach holiday turns on them when four strangers who look exactly like them arrive in the driveway.
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A college horror-movie marathon turns deadly when a killer connected to a long-dead cult filmmaker begins stalking the students who organised it. Mark Herrier's 1991 slasher, screening here on VHS.
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Longing for a baby, a Paris stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.
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When Oskar, a sensitive, bullied 12-year-old boy, meets his new neighbor, the mysterious and moody Eli, they strike up a friendship.
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The New Parkway's Cereal Cinema: a Saturday-morning program of classic cartoons served with cereal, for all ages.
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In 1892 California, novelist Emma Strand is on vacation with her second husband Albert when a storm forces them to shelter at the mansion of Emma's first husband George and his unstable new wife Lillian. Over the evening Emma confronts her unhappy marriage and the possibility that the house is haunted by the couple's recently drowned daughter.
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Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite crash near a desert town. Putnam becomes an object of scorn after claiming the object is an inhabited spacecraft.
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Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life. The mad scientist's dreams are shattered by his monstrous creation awakening with rage to a world that hates and fears him.
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Young Luke overhears a convention of witches while staying at an English seaside hotel with his grandmother Helga. The Grand High Witch intends to turn every child in England into a mouse, and Luke is the first to be tested on.
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The sixth annual dance film festival curated by REYES Dance, screening short dance films by Bay Area artists on themes of horror, thrill and comedy. Hosted by Churro Nomi; costumes encouraged.
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Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
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A sculptor runs a wax museum featuring historical figures. When his business partner pushes for more extreme exhibits to boost profits, the sculptor's troubles begin. Screened in its original 3D presentation.
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The Balboa's annual Halloween marathon of unannounced horror titles, revealed only at the screening.
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After years in a nun-run orphanage, a girl named Sayuri is reunited with her family and begins having nightmarish visions of a fanged demon, wild monsters and deadly snakes. A surreal gothic horror story adapted from manga pioneer Kazuo Umezu.
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A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.
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A slasher story in which a miner who died in a Valentine's Day disaster two decades earlier returns to take revenge on teenagers preparing for a dance.
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An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naive friends, who ignore the area's history and are picked off one by one by Jason.
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Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent bookshop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love anonymously online, neither realising he is driving her out of business.
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A married pair of sword-wielding heroes fight to defend Ming dynasty China against Japanese pirates and the corrupt officials who shelter them.
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In a future totalitarian state where emotion is outlawed and sedative use is mandated by the government, a technician known as THX 1138 stops taking his prescribed drugs and begins a forbidden romance.
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An ageing Chinese immigrant running a laundromat is swept into a chaotic adventure in which she alone can save existence, by drawing on the lives she might have lived across other universes.
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Kassem Hawal's adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani's novel. A Palestinian couple who fled Haifa under shelling in 1948, leaving their infant son Khaldoun behind, return in 1967 to the house they lost and to the child they spent twenty years trying to find.
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A hard-partying New York nightlife promoter has his world upended by the ten-year-old son he never knew he had. Jordan Firstman writes, directs and stars, with Cara Delevingne and Diego Calva. Presented by SFFILM in 35mm.
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Seventeen-year-old Ainara announces that she feels called to God and is considering life as a cloistered nun. Her decision shocks her family and strains their relationships, as each of them weighs whether this is a sincere calling, the influence of her religious school, or a response to her father's inattention and her mother's absence. Winner of the Golden Shell at San Sebastian and the Goya for Best Film.
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A French academic is seduced into a world of untold histories in her scholarly quest to uncover the mystery of a history-capturing camera-like machine created by clandestine Benedictine monks.
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In a dystopian 2019 Los Angeles, retired blade runner Rick Deckard is called back to eliminate four escaped replicants seeking their creator to extend their brief lifespans.
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In late-90s suburbia, a lonely teenager meets a girl who introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show, a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own, and their grasp on reality begins to fracture.
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A BAMPFA Alternative Visions programme pairing Harun Farocki's War at a Distance with videos by the Palestinian artist Mahmoud Alhaj.
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Michal Marczak's documentary follows Daniel, whose teenage son Chris was last seen on a bridge over Warsaw's Vistula River. He searches the water with homemade boats, drones and underwater cameras, and begins helping other families looking for missing relatives. Programmed by the Roxie but screening at New People Cinema, 1746 Post Street in Japantown; director Michal Marczak attends for a post-screening Q&A.
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Ann Hui's 1979 debut feature, a Hong Kong murder mystery assembled from the conflicting accounts of witnesses to a killing inside a love triangle. Screening in BAMPFA's Hong Kong Cinema: Rarities and Restorations.
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Ten years after his death, the boundary-pushing filmmaker William Greaves has one last surprise: footage of a 1972 gathering he convened of the surviving figures of the Harlem Renaissance, which he considered the most important event he ever filmed.
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In the summer of 1949, Nobel laureate Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika take a road trip through a divided, ruined Germany, from US-controlled Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar. Returning after sixteen years of exile, Mann confronts both a split nation and a widening rift inside his own family.
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A Floating Features screening programmed by the Roxie but held aboard the hybrid-electric vessel Enhydra, departing Pier 43½ at Fisherman's Wharf. A young San Francisco couple stretch themselves to buy a Victorian and take in tenants to cover it, and one of them has no intention of leaving or paying.
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A destitute ronin arrives at the House of Iyi asking for a place to commit seppuku, and the clan's counselor, suspecting a bid for charity, hears him out — a story that turns on the gap between honor and respect.
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A Studio 8 Film Festival juror programme at the 4-Star, presented by SF Artists Alumni: short films by jurors Ed Jones, Michael LaRocco and Jac White, with the filmmakers present.
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Sean Meredith's paper-puppet adaptation of the Inferno, relocating Dante's descent to a modern America of politicians, pimps and the Devil himself.
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A mockumentary war report from an imagined civil war between Los Angeles and San Francisco, built around Sandow Birk's paintings and narrated as newsreel history.
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Pacho left his home in Anserma at fifteen to escape the violence and has spent forty years away. A photograph draws him back, and his return - imagined as an interstellar voyage - becomes a search for everything he left behind, threading together traces of death, rural expressionist landscape, memory and history.
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The juried programme of the Studio 8 Film Festival, presented at the 4-Star by SF Artists Alumni: a selection of short works gathered under the theme Personal Visions.
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Julia Loktev follows the Russian independent journalists of Part I after they leave the country, rebuilding their lives and their reporting in exile. The Roxie presents Chapters 4 and 5 of the full work.
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An intimate, wide-ranging portrait of the 14th Dalai Lama built around his long relationship with the people of the Netherlands, from the royal family to artists and intellectuals. It sets his message of inner peace, his concern for the planet and his belief in universal connectedness against a world marked by division. With Richard Gere, Ani Jinpa Palmo and Tsering Jampa. Netherlands, 2026, 94 min.
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Patrick Tam Hong Kong New Wave wuxia: the swordsman Li Mak-Jan seeks a duel with the powerful recluse Hua Qian Shu, and a cursed blade draws everyone around him toward ruin.
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Tommy Wiseau's midnight-movie phenomenon.
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The finale of the Studio 8 Film Festival at the Roxie, presented by SF Artists Alumni. The 2026 Studio 8 Legacy Award honours Dutch artist and filmmaker Babeth Mondini VanLoo (SFAI 1977), a student of Joseph Beuys whose documentaries span five decades, from punk to Buddhism. Programme curated by Marian Wallace with the filmmaker.
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Camilo Restrepo Medellin fever dream, freely inspired by a true story. Pinky has just freed himself from the grip of a religious sect; he squats where he can and takes a night job in an illegal t-shirt factory, his broken faith and violent memories circling back toward revenge.
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Part one of Masaki Kobayashi nine-hour epic. Kaji takes a labour-management post at a Manchurian mine to escape conscription, tries to treat the Chinese conscript workers humanely, and is ground down by scheming officials, brutal foremen and the military police.
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Andrzej Wajda deeply personal homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the Polish James Dean and star of Ashes and Diamonds, who died young. The lead actor of a film disappears mid-production and his family and crew search for him; a film-within-a-film that mirrors the real tragedy and turns a scathing eye on the industry.
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Beatriz Valencia, a domestic worker in the US, and Carolina, her daughter and the filmmaker, collaborate to invent the fictional character of a writer. A hybrid documentary about immigration, labour, dreams and the power of fiction to spark emancipation.
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Art film producer Jeremy Prokosch, unhappy with the work of his director, hires Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of The Odyssey, but when it seems the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb, he brings in a screenwriter to energise the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.