You Got Gold – A Celebration of John Prine

Tuesday, March 10 1 & 7pm

You Got Gold — A Celebration of John Prine captures a star-studded tribute to the legendary songwriter, filmed in October 2022 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. The event brought together acclaimed artists, friends, and family to share behind-the-scenes stories and perform classic songs, honoring Prine’s enduring legacy…MORE INFO

Love Letters

Presented by OUTwatch and Rialto Cinemas

Thursday, March 12 1 & 6:30pm

Céline is preparing to become a mother, but she isn’t the one carrying the baby. Her wife, Nadia will give birth in just a few months and Céline must navigate the emotional, legal, and social challenges of becoming a parent in this unconventional journey.  In France, since Celline will not be the biological mother of her daughter, she now faces a mountain of paperwork to adopt her daughter…MORE INFO

Reminders of Him

Starts Friday, March 13

After a perfect outing with her boyfriend, Kenna (Maika Monroe; The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, Longlegs) makes an unbearable mistake that sends her to prison. Seven years later, Kenna returns to her hometown in Wyoming, hoping to rebuild her life and earn the chance to reunite with her young daughter, Diem, whom she has never known…MORE INFO

Kokuho

Starts Friday, March 13

Nagasaki, 1964. After the death of his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, 14-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous Kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, Kikuo decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. Across decades, the two young men grow and evolve together – from acting school to the grandest stages – amid scandals and glory, brotherhood and betrayals, as each pushes to become the greatest living Kabuki master…MORE INFO

awards night viewing party

A Benefit for
Food For Thought

Sunday, March 15

RED CARPET 3pm
SHOW BEGINS 4pm

Have you ever experienced Hollywood’s biggest night with an audience? Join us as we raise funds for Food for Thought and enjoy an evening of stargazing, suspense, prizes and 97th annual awards ceremony LIVE On the big screen…MORE INFO

The Indivisible Sonoma County Film Series presented by Rialto Cinemas

Suffragette

Wednesday, March 18 1 & 7pm

Panel discussion to follow 7pm screening!

In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end…MORE INFO

Project Hail Mary

Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction… but an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone…MORE INFO

Lesbian & Queer Visibility: Three Short Films

Sunday, March 22 1pm

Q&A and discussion with Sonoma County Dyke March Organizers to follow films!

Join us for an inspiring and fun afternoon of three short documentaries that honor Lesbian & Queer culture, history, and visibility. We’re kicking things off with a high-energy screening to officially launch the first-ever and inclusive Sonoma County Dyke March & Lez-a-Palooza Street Fair…MORE INFO

A Magnificent Life

Starts Friday, March 27

In 1955, 60-year-old Marcel Pagnol is a well-known and acclaimed playwright and filmmaker. When the editor-in-chief of ELLE magazine commissions a weekly column about Pagnol’s childhood, he sees this as a great opportunity to go back to his artistic roots: writing. Realizing his memory is failing him and deeply affected by the disappointing results of his last two plays, Pagnol starts doubting his ability to pursue his work…MORE INFO

Dinner & A Movie

Next Dinner March 29: The Brother From Another Planet

Prior to each screening, 40 guests will enjoy a delicious meal, prepared by James Beard Award winner Michele Anna Jordan and Rialto Cinemas’ kitchen team…

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Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It

Tuesday, March 24 1 & 7pm

Musical prodigy, admired and beloved by collaborators including Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Sly Stone, and others; dubbed “the fifth Beatle” for his co-credited “Get Back” recording; genius of gospel, rock, and funk as keyboardist, vocalist, and songwriter. Billy Preston was also troubled, underrecognized, and elusive—a closeted gay man raised in a Black church community…MORE INFO

Spacewoman

Tuesday, March 31 1 & 7pm

Astronaut Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot and command an American  spacecraft. Born on the other side of the tracks in upstate New York, she smashed many glass ceilings in the US Air Force and at NASA in her career, culminating in four increasingly dramatic and dangerous space shuttle missions…MORE INFO

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

Starts Wednesday, April 1

Mario ventures into space, exploring cosmic worlds and tackling galactic challenges far from the familiar Mushroom Kingdom…MORE INFO

A Great Awakening

Starts Friday, April 3

With the colonies on the brink of collapse, the Reverend George Whitefield ignites the first Great Awakening, uniting an entire generation with his thundering and faithful sermons and proclamations of liberty. In a miraculous turn of events, one of Whitefield’s closest friends and greatest promoters becomes none other than Benjamin Franklin. With the nation’s freedom hanging in the balance, the founders discover true liberty cannot only be written into law – it must be awakened in the hearts of the people…MORE INFO

Hundreds of Beavers

Tuesday, April 7 6:30pm

JEAN KAYAK finds himself stranded in a surreal winter landscape with nothing but his dim wits to guide him. Against a backdrop of ruthless elements and sinister creatures – all played by actors in full-sized mascot costumes – KAYAK develops increasingly complex traps in order to win the hand of a mischievous lover…MORE INFO

Jimpa

Presented by OUTwatch and Rialto Cinemas

Thursday, April 9 1 & 6:30pm

Filmmaker Hannah takes her trans nonbinary teenager Frances to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather, lovingly known as “Jimpa”. When Frances expresses a desire to stay with Jimpa for a year abroad, Hannah is forced to reconsider her parenting beliefs and the stories she has long told about her family. As Jimpa faces the difficulties of aging as a gay man in a generation that never expected to grow old and Frances grapples with the disappointment of heroes falling short of their ideals…MORE INFO

Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival 2026

Friday, April 10 – Sunday, April 12

Rialto Cinemas is proud to be the home of the annual Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival each spring. SDFF brings a diverse array of documentaries from around the world to our screens over the course of a weekend long festival in Sebastopol. Rialto Cinemas is excited to present SDFF’s 2026 slate of world class documentaries…MORE INFO

Exit 8

Starts Friday, April 10

A man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this infinite corridor?…MORE INFO

The Christophers

Starts Friday, April 10

Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) was once a star of London’s 1960’s and 70’s pop art explosion, but he hasn’t painted in decades and has been broke for years. His two estranged children, desperate for an inheritance, hire Lori, an art restorer and former forger, to pose as a prospective assistant in order to access 8 unfinished canvases Julian has buried deep in storage…MORE INFO

The Stranger

Starts Friday, April 10

Meursault works as a clerk at an office in Algiers during the French colonial occupation. A modest man who keeps to himself, Meursault finds his routine upended by the sudden death of his mother. At her funeral, he faces scrutiny from all corners for his failure to perform his grief. Meursault’s reputation for otherworldly detachment carries over to all aspects of his life, from his tentative romance with Marie to his indifference to professional advancement…MORE INFO

Hamlet

Starts Friday, April 10

In this contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, set in a wealthy British South-Asian family, Hamlet returns home for his father’s funeral and is shocked to learn that his uncle Claudius will now marry his widowed mother. When his father’s ghost reveals that Claudius murdered him, Hamlet becomes consumed by revenge, questioning the corruption at the heart of the family’s business, and his own sanity…MORE INFO

Shuffle

Q&A with Director Ben Flaherty!

Wednesday, April 15 7pm

An intimate look inside the billion-dollar addiction treatment industry where young people are bought and sold for their insurance policies and ushered into a system designed to keep them sick…MORE INFO

Jewish Film Festival

Charles Grodin: Rebel with a Cause

Thursday, April 16   1 & 6:30pm

Raised in a Jewish household in Pittsburgh, Charles Grodin’s life embodied the concept of Tikkun Olam or “repairing the world.”  The film not only celebrates Charles Grodin’s hilarious acting career, but also his remarkable, decades-long, successful fight to get wrongly convicted people — most of whom were mothers of color with young children — out of prison…MORE INFO

The Shepherd and the Bear

Wednesday, April 22 1 & 7pm

Set high in the majestic French Pyrenees, THE SHEPHERD AND THE BEAR explores a conflict provoked by the reintroduction of brown bears in the midst of a traditional shepherding community. The film follows an aging shepherd who struggles to find a successor as bears prey on his flock, and a teenage boy who becomes obsessed with tracking the bears…MORE INFO

Suburban Fury

Starts Friday, April 24

In 1975, suburban mother Sara Jane Moore tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford. In an original and compelling new work told in the distinctive style of director Robinson Devor, Suburban Fury explores her radicalization – revealing how isolation and ideology can warp the American dream…MORE INFO

Michael

Starts Friday, April 24

MICHAEL will bring audiences a riveting and honest portrayal of the brilliant yet complicated man who became the King of Pop. The film presents his triumphs and tragedies on an epic, cinematic scale — from his human side and personal struggles to his undeniable creative genius, exemplified by his most iconic performances. As never before, audiences will experience an inside look into one of the most influential, trailblazing artists the world has ever known…MORE INFO

Space Cowboy

Thursday, April 30 1 & 7pm

A pioneer of skydiving cinematography, Joe Jennings looks back on a lifetime of creating iconic moments in film and television, while he tries to pull off his most ambitious stunt yet, turning a dreamlike vision into reality…MORE INFO

Steal This Story, Please!

Coming in April!

Fiercely independent journalist Amy Goodman has spent three decades holding the powerful to account, reporting from conflict zones and the Democracy Now! newsroom. In Steal This Story, Please!, Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin craft a riveting portrait of journalism’s power – and peril – in an era of corporate control and political attacks on truth…MORE INFO

The Devil Wears Prada 2

Starts Friday, May 1

Twenty years after making their iconic turns as Miranda, Andy, Emily and Nigel—Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return to the fashionable streets of New York City and the sleek offices of Runway Magazine…MORE INFO

Jewish Film Festival

The Last Spy

Tuesday, May 12   1 & 6:30pm

“The Last Spy” is the riveting biography of 102-year-old CIA spymaster Peter Sichel, telling for the first time the epic and unvarnished history of the US foreign intelligence service from the inside. With a good dose of wit and humor to boot, Sichel unpacks the obscured roots of conflicts that plague today’s world and the toll espionage took on his personal life…MORE INFO

The Serpent’s Skin

Presented by OUTwatch and Rialto Cinemas

Thursday, May 14 1 & 6:30pm

After escaping her transphobic hometown, Anna meets goth tattoo artist Gen. They bond over shared supernatural abilities, but Gen’s tattoo work accidentally conjures a demon before their romance can bloom…MORE INFO

Jewish Film Festival

Labors of Love: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold

Tuesday, June 9   1 & 6:30pm

This heartfelt film brings long-overdue recognition to Henrietta Szold, a Jewish American humanitarian whose legacy includes advocating for binational cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians. Born in 1860 in Baltimore, Szold was an avid student who assisted Jewish immigrants and established English-language night schools. A visit to Palestine in 1909, following a personal heartbreak, sparked her most lasting contributions: founding Hadassah to empower Jewish American women and provide aid to the region…MORE INFO

Jewish Film Festival

Swedishkayt: YidLife Crisis in Stockholm

Tuesday, July 14   1 & 6:30pm

Get ready to laugh and kvell with Swedishkayt: YidLife Crisis in Stockholm as self-proclaimed international Yiddish-ish icons YidLife Crisis—comedy duo Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman—bravely step onto Swedish soil to unearth a hidden treasure trove of Jewish culture. From the moment they arrive in Stockholm, our heroes, like gefilte fish out of water, prepare for a big live show while unraveling the little-known history of Sweden’s Jewish community in their hilarious and heartfelt journey…MORE INFO

Jewish Film Festival

The Floaters

Tuesday, August 11   1 & 6:30pm

THE FLOATERS follows struggling musician Nomi who accepts a last-resort job from her overachiever best friend Mara: mentoring misfit campers, the “Floaters,” at their childhood Jewish summer camp…MORE INFO

Jewish Film Festival

The Stamp Thief

Tuesday, September 15   1 & 6:30pm

Seinfeld producer Gary Gilbert seeks to recover stamps stolen from victims of the Holocaust by a rogue Nazi officer. This real-life mission is part detective story, part heist film, and a small but powerful act of historical reckoning…MORE INFO