69th San Francisco International Film Festival at BAMPFA

April 25–May 3, 2026

BAMPFA is an official partner of the 69th San Francisco International Film Festival, presented by SFFILM.

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  • Chie Hayakawa: Renoir, 2025

  • Sophy Romvari: Blue Heron, 2025

  • Ildikó Enyedi: Silent Friend, 2025

  • Sara Dosa: Time and Water, 2026

  • Anna Fitch, Banker White: Yo (Love is a Rebellious Bird), 2026

  • Elisé Sawasawa: Enough Is Enough, 2026

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Past Films

  • Renoir

    Chie Hayakawa
    Japan, France, Singapore, Phillipines, Indonesia, Qatar, United States, 2025
    Saturday, April 25 11:30 AM

    In 1987 suburban Tokyo, an eleven-year-old girl’s irrepressible imagination transforms everyday life into a vivid, inventive, and deeply moving adventure.

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  • Hair, Paper, Water . . .

    Nicolas Graux, Trương Minh Quý
    Vietnam, Belgium, France, 2025
    Saturday, April 25 2:15 PM
    Ernst Karel in Person

    A woman regales her grandchildren with her wisdom and stories, a gift of language with which they can navigate life.

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  • Blue Heron

    Sophy Romvari
    Canada, Hungary, 2025
    Saturday, April 25 4:30 PM

    Depicting a young girl whose family is contending with a challenging older sibling, this masterful debut weaves autobiographical and documentary elements to capture the sights and sounds of adolescence impeccably.

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  • It Would Be Night in Caracas

    Mariana Rondón, Marité Ugás
    Mexico, Venezuela, 2025
    Saturday, April 25 7:15 PM
    Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugás in Person

    The lawlessness afoot in Venezuela’s capital city in 2017 is vibrantly captured in this gripping adaptation of Karina Sainz Borgo’s novel from the filmmaking team behind Bad Hair.

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  • Yo (Love Is a Rebellious Bird)

    Anna Fitch, Banker White
    United States, 2026
    Sunday, April 26 11:30 AM
    Anna Fitch and Banker White in Person

    Through beautifully constructed miniature sets and puppets, directors Anna Fitch and Banker White craft an elegy to the life and times of Anna’s beloved friend, Yo.

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  • Risa and the Wind Phone

    Juan Cabral
    Argentina, 2025
    Sunday, April 26 2 PM
    Pablo Minces in Person

    In a small town where the dead call from an abandoned phone booth, a young girl discovers she alone can hear them, setting off a whimsical quest to help spirits—and find her father.

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  • Time and Water

    Sara Dosa
    United States, Iceland, 2026

    Closed Captioned

    Sunday, April 26 4:45 PM
    Sara Dosa and Andri Snaer Magnason in Person

    Writer Andri Snær Magnason reckons with the death of Okjökull, the first glacier lost to climate change, as Sara Dosa’s striking documentary blends vanishing ice, family memory, and urgent witness.

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  • The World of Love

    Yoon Ga-eun
    South Korea, 2025
    Sunday, April 26 7:30 PM

    Boisterous and unshakable, a young girl’s harmonious world unravels after a public clash and anonymous letters force her to confront long-buried truths, testing her sense of self and resilience.

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  • Give Me the Ball!

    Liz Garbus, Elizabeth Wolff
    United States, 2026

    Closed Captioned

    Monday, April 27 4:30 PM

    Through rare archival footage and candid interviews in this vivid and electrifying documentary, Billie Jean King recalls the victories, struggles, and sacrifices behind her trailblazing career.

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  • Figaro Up, Figaro Down

    Javid Soriano
    United States, 2026
    Tuesday, April 28 4:30 PM
    Javid Soriano, Rob Reichert, and Tim Blevins in Person

    Tim Blevins trained at Juilliard, enthralling opera fans with his baritone before losing it all to addiction. But then he pulled off a stunning comeback.

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  • Enough Is Enough

    Elisé Sawasawa
    France, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2026
    Wednesday, April 29 5 PM

    Displaced Congolese filmmaker Elisé Sawasawa chronicles life amid the Kivu War, capturing shocking attacks, refugee struggles, and frontline chaos in a fearless, urgent, and unflinching documentary about resilience.

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  • Persistence of Vision Award: Lynne Sachs + Every Contact Leaves a Trace

    Lynne Sachs
    United States, 2025
    Wednesday, April 29 7 PM
    Lynne Sachs and Kathy Geritz in Conversation

    A swirl of images and sonic sound accompanies Lynne Sachs’s rumination of memory and assumptions, using as her inspiration a stack of business cards collected over forty years.

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  • Silent Friend

    Ildiko Enyedi
    Germany, Hungary, France, 2025
    Thursday, April 30 4 PM

    An ancient ginkgo tree enchants longing souls across more than a century in this spellbinding cinematic triptych starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Léa Seydoux.

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  • The Son and the Sea

    Stroma Cairns
    United Kingdom, 2025
    Thursday, April 30 7:30 PM
    Stroma Cairns in Person

    A restless young man leaves London for the Scottish coast in search of purpose. Along the way, unexpected friendships force him to confront who he is—and who he might become.

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  • Salvation

    Emin Alper
    Turkey, France, Netherlands, Greece, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, 2026
    Friday, May 1 4 PM
    Berkay Ateş in Person

    Winner of the Berlinale’s Silver Bear, Emin Alper’s tense, visually striking drama explores the explosive consequences when territorial rivalries ignite in a remote Turkish mountain village.

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  • Filipiñana

    Rafael Manuel
    Singapore, United Kingdom, Philippines, France, Netherlands, 2026
    Friday, May 1 7 PM

    In this auspicious debut feature, a new hire arrives for work at a luxurious golf course on the outskirts of Manila, where she discovers something sinister hiding beneath its pristine surface.

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  • Amílcar

    Miguel Eek
    Spain, Portugal, France, Sweden, Cape Verde, 2025
    Sunday, May 3 2 PM

    The life of Amílcar Cabral, revolutionary leader of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, unfolds in this essayistic documentary, weaving letters, photographs, music, and archival footage into a vivid, striking portrait of a singular political voice.

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  • The Arch

    T’ang Shushuen
    Hong Kong, 1968

    4K Digital Restoration

    Sunday, May 3 4:30 PM

    Presented at the 1968 San Francisco International Film Festival and little seen since then, The Arch focuses on a proud widow who has allowed herself to be treated almost as a deity because of her virtuous behavior.

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  • Those Who Whistle After Dark

    Pınar Yorgancıoğlu
    Turkey, Bulgaria, Germany, 2025
    Sunday, May 3 7 PM
    Pinar Yorgancioglu, Ilda Ozgurel, Emran Gulcan, and Gustavo Rosa in Person

    Retired Melih drifts through life as his wife and daughter pursue risky professional schemes. When ghostly figures appear, domestic absurdity spirals in this offbeat, darkly comic, and unexpectedly charming portrait of family life.

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