The Last Picture Shows

Wednesday, September 23 6:30pm

Q&A with Director Rustin Thompson to follow screening!

Filmmaker Rustin Thompson journeys into the American West on a search for traces of what was once a center of small-town life: the movie theater. On the trip, he finds long abandoned and forgotten cinemas; movie houses that have fallen into disrepair; theaters recently closed, theaters struggling to hold on, and theaters that—thanks to their thoughtful caretakers—are not only surviving but thriving…MORE INFO

Primetime

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history…MORE INFO

You Had to be There

The 1972 Toronto production of Godspell, the musical about the life of Jesus, starred a then-unknown cast of Martin Short, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas, and Victor Garber, et al, with Paul Shaffer serving as musical director – a crazy confluence of talent rivalling ‘Paris in the 20s.’…MORE INFO

Rocky Horror Picture Show

with Transylvanian Temptations Live Shadowcast!

Saturday, September 26 11:30pm

In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters…MORE INFO

Songs of a Slow Burning Earth

Monday, September 28 6:30pm

Q&A with Director Olha Zhurba to follow film!

The film depicts the mass tragedy of people who came face to face with a large-scale war. Events unfold in different parts of Ukraine from the first days of the war and up to the present day. It captures a collective portrait of Ukrainians fleeing the grindstones of war, and those who stayed and are forced to adapt to life under constant shelling…MORE INFO

Silent Movie Day 2026

Méliès: Fairy Tales in Color

Tuesday, September 29 6:30pm

Silent Movie Day is an annual celebration of silent movies, a vastly misunderstood and neglected cinematic art form. We believe that silent motion pictures are a vital, beautiful, and often powerful part of film history, and we are united with others in the goal to advocate for their presentation and preservation…MORE INFO

Digger

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…MORE INFO

Coffee and Language

Monday, October 5   6:30pm

Q&A with director JP Allen and Producer Cathy Montosa to follow film!

Best known for his “audacious and skillful” (SF Chronicle) independent films, SF writer/director JP Allen, and his company Coffee and Language Productions, celebrate their 25th Anniversary with their original feature film (of eleven), COFFEE AND LANGUAGE…MORE INFO

Who Moves America

Tuesday, October 6 6:30pm

Q&A with Director Yael Bridge to follow screening!

In an era of deepening inequality, UPS Teamsters stand on the brink of a historic strike. As the deadline looms, Who Moves America shadows UPS workers across the country as they navigate the challenges of building solidarity with their 340,000 co-workers…MORE INFO

Musk

Starts Friday, October 9

An incisive look behind the legend of Elon Musk, the world’s most heralded “inventor-entrepreneur” who has enormous influence on the world in which we all live…MORE INFO

Hanging By A Wire

Tuesday, October 13 6:30pm

Q&A with Director Mohammed Ali Naqvi to follow screening!

A routine school commute turns terrifying when a cable car’s wire snaps, leaving eight passengers — including six schoolboys — dangling 900 feet above a ravine in the remote Himalayan foothills. With no margin for error and a cable that could fail at any moment, an unlikely alliance of rescuers must improvise under intense public scrutiny, racing against an invisible clock before disaster strikes live on television…MORE INFO

The Devils

Starts Friday, October 16

Ken Russell’s 1971 The Devils remains one of cinema’s most transgressive and incendiary provocations, a feverish account of the Loudun possessions witchcraft trial in 17th-century France. Oliver Reed stars as Urbain Grandier, a wildly charismatic libertine priest who defies Cardinal Richelieu’s consolidation of power…MORE INFO

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

Starts Friday, October 16

From writer-director Bassam Tariq, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother stars Mahershala Ali as Latif, a devoutly religious hitman who 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…MORE INFO

KNIFE: THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF SALMAN RUSHDIE

Tuesday, October 20 6:30pm

Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie is inspired by Rushdie’s memoir “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.” The film explores Rushdie’s recovery in the broadest sense. Through Rushdie’s wife Rachel Eliza Griffiths’ personal footage, which has never been seen by the public, the doc follows the writer during his physical recovery as well as the recovery of his spirit and hope for the future…MORE INFO

Fjord

Starts Friday, October 23

From two⁠-⁠time Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu, a Norwegian woman and her devout Romanian husband relocate with their five children to a remote, close⁠-⁠knit, coastal town. Their teenage children form a fast bond with a neighboring family as unease begins to simmer around their rigid beliefs. When allegations of abuse emerge, they are forced to confront a system of judgment that blurs the line between concern and prejudice…MORE INFO

ONE IN A MILLION

Saturday, October 24 11:00am

Q&A with Directors Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes and Film Subject Israa fo follow film!

Filmed over 10 years, one girl’s epic journey from Syria to Germany and back again. She and her family navigate war, exile, and heartbreak in a foreign land, illuminating the complexities of the refugee experience…MORE INFO

Berkeley Film Foundation presents

Labors of Love: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold

Wednesday, October 28   6:00pm

Q&A with director Abby Ginzberg and Rabbi David Cooper to follow film!

Labors of Love: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold, an award-winning film by local Bay Area filmmaker Abby Ginzberg, delves into the remarkable life and enduring legacy of Henrietta Szold, one of the most influential, yet under-recognized, American Jewish women in history. A visionary leader with an extraordinary blend of logistical brilliance and hands-on dedication, Henrietta played a pivotal role in shaping Palestine’s healthcare system while providing refuge and healing to thousands of young Holocaust survivors…MORE INFO

Once Upon a Time in Harlem

Starts Friday, October 30

A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. For four hours, this extraordinary group – many of whom had not seen each other in fifty years – reminisced, critiqued, argued, laughed and drank while wrestling with their place in a rapidly shifting cultural landscape…MORE INFO

Fatherland

Starts Friday, November 6

At the height of the Cold War, the writer Thomas Mann and his daughter—actress, writer, and rally driver—Erika embark on a road trip in a black Buick cruiser across a divided Germany in ruins, traveling from the Allied-occupied city of Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar…MORE INFO

Wild Horse Nine

Starts Friday, November 6

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) are dispatched from Santiago to Easter island by their bureau chief, MJ (Steve Buscemi). Amongst the Island’s iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris’s newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students (Mariana di Girolamo and Ailín Salas) threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways…MORE INFO

Club Kid

Starts Friday, November 13

A hard-partying New York City club promoter sees his whirlwind lifestyle upended by the arrival of the 10-year-old son he never knew he had…MORE INFO

Ink

Starts Friday, December 11

An explosive cinematic rollercoaster about a group of visionaries and misfits who had an idea for a new kind of news — one that would give the people what they want and would change the face of the world we live in today. Based on the Tony Award-winning play of the same name…MORE INFO