65th San Francisco International Film Festival at BAMPFA
April 22–May 1, 2022
BAMPFA is proud to partner with the SFFILM Festival, an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and a major cultural event in the Bay Area.
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Mars One
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Neptune Frost
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Fire of Love
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Audrey Diwan
France, 2021Friday, April 22 7 PMAudrey Diwan and Anamaria Vartolomei in PersonView DetailsA bright literature student in 1960s France refuses to let an unwanted pregnancy shatter her life and seeks an illegal abortion in this powerful drama adapted from Annie Ernaux’s memoir.
Children of the Mist
Diễm Hà Lệ
Vietnam, 2021Saturday, April 23 3 PMView DetailsLiving in isolation from the modern world in the mountains of Vietnam, feisty Hmong teenager Di must decide if she will succumb to tradition or bravely choose a different fate.
Hit the Road
Panah Panahi
Iran, 2021Saturday, April 23 5:30 PMView DetailsIn Panahi’s auspicious feature debut, an eccentric family takes a road trip through sun-drenched Iranian landscapes as they accompany their eldest son to a mysterious destination.
Mars One
Gabriel Martins
Brazil, 2022Saturday, April 23 7:45 PMGabriel Martins and Thiago Macêdo Correia in PersonView DetailsFeaturing four vibrant characters from working-class Brazil, this tender film is a delightful portrait of a mutually nurturing family who dares to dream.
The Exiles
Ben Klein, Violet Columbus
United States, Taiwan, France, China, 2021Sunday, April 24 2 PMViolet Columbus, Ben Klein, and Wu’er Kaixi in PersonView DetailsNever-before-seen footage of Chinese dissidents enmeshed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and their bittersweet reflections thirty years later anchor this hybrid of cine-memoir and archival excavation focused on Who Killed Vincent Chin? documentary firebrand Christine Choy.
Fire of Love
Sara Dosa
United States, Canada, 2021Sunday, April 24 5 PMSara Dosa in PersonView DetailsA couple’s passion for one another is inextricably bound with the explosive geology that is their life’s work in this stunning documentary portrait of volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, narrated by Miranda July.
La guerra civil
Eva Longoria Bastón
United Kingdom, United States, Mexico, 2022Sunday, April 24 7:45 PMView DetailsThe legendary boxing rivalry between Mexican Julio César Chávez and Mexican American Oscar De La Hoya sets the stage for an examination of identity, tradition, and nationality in Longoria Bastón’s gripping documentary.
Neptune Frost
Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams
Rwanda, United States, 2021Wednesday, April 27 7 PMView DetailsReplete with mind-altering visual and sonic imagery, this Afrofuturist mélange of music, poetry, and resistance is hypnotic and visionary in its depiction of a genderqueer community of hackers and techno poets.
Utama
Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Bolivia, Uruguay, France, 2022Thursday, April 28 6 PMView DetailsA long drought parching their Bolivian highlands homeland endangers an elderly Quechua llama herder and his wife’s way of life in this intricate examination of the relationship between land and humanity.
Fire on the Plain
Zhang Ji
China, 2021Thursday, April 28 8 PMView DetailsThe son of a local gangster and daughter of a factory worker conspire to flee their desperate lives as a serial killer runs rampant in this Chinese social realist neo-noir.
Benediction
Terence Davies
United Kingdom, 2021US Premiere
Friday, April 29 4 PMView DetailsDavies separates man from myth in his masterly portrait of acclaimed antiwar poet Siegfried Sassoon, employing archival footage, gleefully catty dialog, and an artful crosscutting between the different eras of his subject’s fraught and complex life.
Trinh T. Minh-ha: Persistence of Vision Award + What About China?
Trinh T. Minh-ha
United States, China, 2021Friday, April 29 7 PMTrinh T. Minh-ha and Rizvana Bradley in ConversationView DetailsFilmmaker, writer, and composer Trinh is this year’s recipient of the Persistence of Vision Award. Trinh will present her latest film, What About China?
I Didn’t See You There
Reid Davenport
United States, 2022Saturday, April 30 3 PMReid Davenport and Keith Wilson in PersonView DetailsOakland resident and filmmaker Reid Davenport reflects on matters of visibility, family, and the freak show in his latest personal documentary, winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s Directing Award for US Documentary.
Costa Brava, Lebanon
Mounia Akl
Lebanon, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Qatar, 2021Saturday, April 30 5:30 PMView DetailsSet in the near future but reflecting on current crises in present-day Lebanon, this tense debut portrays three generations of the Badri family, who retreat from the chaos of Beirut to a rural homestead.
Întregalde
Radu Muntean
Romania, 2021Saturday, April 30 7:45 PMView DetailsWryly funny and suspenseful, this Cannes hit portrays a trio of Romanian aid workers whose SUV gets stuck on a logging road in remote Transylvania.
Midwives
Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
Myanmar, Canada, Germany, 2022Sunday, May 1 2:30 PMView DetailsAmidst Myanmar’s escalating civil war, a Buddhist midwife and her Muslim apprentice overcome personal and professional differences to care for their patients at a village clinic in this nuanced documentary.
Riotsville, USA
Sierra Pettengill
United States, 2022Sunday, May 1 4:30 PMNels Bangerter in PersonView DetailsThis stunning essay film employs a treasure trove of archival US military recordings and 1960s broadcast TV as the foundation for a piercing interrogation into the origins of the militarization of American police.
Klondike
Maryna Er Gorbach
Ukraine, Turkey, 2022Sunday, May 1 7 PMOksana Cherkashyna in PersonView DetailsArmed conflict hits home in the most vivid way imaginable when mortar fire decimates one wall of the farmhouse belonging to married Ukrainian couple Irka and Tolik in this striking drama based on real events.
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