68th San Francisco International Film Festival at BAMPFA

April 18–27, 2025

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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  • Koya Kamura: Winter in Sokcho, 2024

  • Rohan Parashuram Kanawade: Cactus Pears, 2025

  • Neo Sora: Happyend, 2024

  • Ana Endara: Beloved Tropic, 2024

  • Rebecca Lenkiewicz: Hot Milk, 2025

  • Brittany Shyne: Seeds, 2025

  • Athina Rachel Tsangari: Harvest, 2024

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Upcoming Films

  • Ghost Trail

    Jonathan Millet
    France, Germany, Belgium, 2024
    Friday, April 18 5:30 PM

    A Syrian exile and former literature professor, now living in France, hunts the prison guard who once tortured him, balancing vengeance, secrecy, and the emotional weight of his past.

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  • Harvest

    Athina Rachel Tsangari
    United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, France, United States, 2024
    Friday, April 18 8 PM

    In this painterly adaptation of Jim Crace’s novel, director Athina Rachel Tsangari observes behavioral systems within a pressure cooker, as residents of a medieval village face upheaval when capitalist dynamics come to town.

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  • Vivien’s Wild Ride

    Vivien Hillgrove
    United States, 2025
    Saturday, April 19 12 PM

    When legendary film editor Vivien Hillgrove begins losing her sight, she turns to filmmaking to craft a magical memoir, reflecting on her career, personal struggles, and the transformative power of creativity.

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  • Cutting Through Rocks

    Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni
    Iran, Germany, United States, Netherlands, Qatar, Chile, Canada, 2025
    Saturday, April 19 2:30 PM

    The first female elected to her rural Iranian village’s council refuses to follow patriarchal norms despite facing aggressive resistance in this transcendent vérité portrait of an extraordinary woman effecting change.

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  • The Botanist

    Jing Yi
    China, 2025
    Saturday, April 19 5:15 PM

    In the sun-drenched valleys of Xinjiang, China, a young Kazakh boy beguiled by the natural world experiences the same sense of enchantment when he meets a spirited Han Chinese girl.

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  • Shadowbox

    Tanushree Das, Saumyananda Sahi
    India, France, United States, Spain, 2025
    Saturday, April 19 8 PM

    Maya works multiple jobs to keep her household running, until her husband’s disappearance and trouble with the law upsets the delicate and fragile balance she maintains in her world.

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  • Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story

    Sinéad O’Shea
    Ireland, United Kingdom, 2024

    Closed Captioned

    Sunday, April 20 11:30 AM

    Edna O’Brien became notorious in the 1960s and 1970s for writing sexually explicit novels that inspired generations of writers. Jessie Buckley narrates this tender documentary that captures the late writer’s essence.

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  • Seeds

    Brittany Shyne
    United States, 2025

    Closed Captioned

    Sunday, April 20 2:15 PM

    This visually stunning portrait reflects on identity, legacy, and the cyclical nature of life as it explores a Black family’s century-old farm, capturing both its beauty and the family’s struggles.

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  • Beloved Tropic

    Ana Endara
    Panama, Colombia, 2024
    Sunday, April 20 5:30 PM

    A Colombian immigrant woman in Panama cares for a matriarch suffering from dementia in a powerful story about love, motherhood, and aging.

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  • 3670

    Joonho Park
    South Korea, 2025
    Sunday, April 20 8:15 PM

    A young North Korean defector’s path toward self-discovery brings him into Seoul’s vibrant gay community, where new friendships and hardships lie ahead.

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  • The Chaplain and the Doctor

    Jessica Zitter
    United States, 2025
    Wednesday, April 23 4:30 PM

    An unlikely partnership forms between a chaplain and a physician in an Oakland trauma center, as they challenge medical biases and redefine compassionate care while confronting personal and professional struggles together.

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  • Cactus Pears

    Rohan Parashuram Kanawade
    India, United Kingdom, Canada, 2025
    Wednesday, April 23 7 PM

    A tender tale of queer love and friendship blossoms amidst one man’s grief over the death of his father and the strict social mores of a rugged western Indian town.

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  • Persistence of Vision Award: Sky Hopinka + maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore

    Sky Hopinka
    United States, 2020
    Thursday, April 24 7 PM
    Sky Hopinka and Beth Piatote in Conversation

    Bodies of water ebb and flow throughout Hopinka’s poetic experimental documentary following the wanderings of two Native Americans as they share their rituals and relationships to life, identity, language, and their homeland.

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  • Happyend

    Neo Sora
    Japan, United States, 2024
    Friday, April 25 4:30 PM

    In a moody near-future Tokyo, a school’s new draconian mass surveillance system unsettles the friendships and free spirits of a group of endearingly rambunctious teens.

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  • Manas

    Marianna Brennand
    Brazil, Portugal, 2024
    Friday, April 25 7 PM

    Trapped in an abusive home on an isolated island in the Brazilian rainforest, a thirteen-year-old girl yearns to escape and reunite with her older sister in the city.

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  • All That’s Left of You

    Cherien Dabis
    Germany, Cyprus, Palestine, Jordan, Greece, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, 2025
    Saturday, April 26 12 PM

    An epic drama spanning three generations in the life of a Palestinian family, this dynamic film centers on the personal while also depicting the dehumanizing political situation surrounding its characters.

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  • Sudan, remember us

    Hind Meddeb
    France, Tunisia, Qatar, 2024
    Saturday, April 26 3 PM

    In the midst of war and destruction in Sudan, four young activists insist on justice, freedom, and change, emerging as beacons of hope for the country and the world.

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  • Julie Keeps Quiet

    Leonardo van Dijl
    Belgium, Sweden, 2024
    Saturday, April 26 5:30 PM

    With astute attention to framing and shot design, this riveting debut puts its rising tennis star protagonist front and center as she navigates the suspension of her coach amid rumors of abuse.

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  • Winter in Sokcho

    Koya Kamura
    France, South Korea, 2024
    Saturday, April 26 7:45 PM

    In a snowy seaside town on South Korea’s east coast, a mysterious French artist upends an introspective young woman’s life.

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  • The Tallest Dwarf

    Julie Forrest Wyman
    United States, 2025
    Sunday, April 27 12 PM

    Diagnosed with hypochondroplasia dwarfism as an adult, filmmaker Julie Forrest Wyman seeks to understand her own condition as she confers with her family, medical experts, and a welcoming, creative group of little people for answers.

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  • I Dreamed His Name

    Ángela Carabalí
    Colombia, 2025
    Sunday, April 27 2:30 PM

    Thirty years after their father disappeared during a period of civil unrest, director Ángela Carabalí and her sister Juliana travel throughout Colombia seeking answers.

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  • Deaf President Now!

    Nyle DiMarco, Davis Guggenheim
    United States, 2025

    Open Captioned
    American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided for this program

    Sunday, April 27 5 PM

    In this involving documentary, students at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, stage protests in March 1988, demanding that the world’s first university for the deaf and hard of hearing appoint a deaf president.

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  • Hot Milk

    Rebecca Lenkiewicz
    United Kingdom, 2025
    Sunday, April 27 7:45 PM

    An unsettling mother/daughter story set over a sultry Spanish summer, this sexy and mysterious drama starring Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, and Vicky Krieps beautifully adapts Deborah Levy’s acclaimed novel.

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Past Films