Films show at 7:00, 8:00 and 9:00 pm
“Crawl” from one INDOOR screening location to the next to enjoy the variety of films offered by Presenting Partners and selected by the 2025 Selection Committee
ALL VENUES ARE INDOORS
Venues and Presenting Partners
Studio 45 • Cafe Seventy8 • The Magic Patio • STEMful
When the director shouts, “Action!” on the set of a queer film, it’s more than just the beginning of another scene—it’s the start of a conversation that pushes boundaries and defies conventions.
Anna Firth
Animation | 3:30
Two artists keep warm in the legacy of an esteemed summer residency.
Alex J Bledsoe
Documentary | 3:43
A short film that documents the interior lives of art handlxrs and their experiences in the art world.
Frances Capel
Narrative | 12:49
After their best friend dies, four best friends plan a heist to steal their ashes and take them on a final joyride for the send off they deserve.
Franny Trinidad, Kelly Liu
Documentary | 13:10
Bay Area Filipino drag queens are blending ballroom and pre-colonial Babaylan spirituality as a reclamation and celebration of queer Filipino identity.
We believe in forging highly collaborative partnerships to tell stories that matter.
Sophie Constantinou
Documentary | 3:00
This Love honors the impact and legacy of Reverend Cecil Williams and his partner in life and love, Poet Laureate Janice Mirikitani, who converted trauma and injustice into revolutionary, unconditional love.
Sophie Constantinou
Documentary | 3:00
Maritza shares her experience finding success and community through Immigrants Rising, which works to empower undocumented young people to achieve educational and career goals through personal, institutional and policy transformation.
Jenni Olson
Documentary | 5:00
Jenni Olson’s powerful elegy reveals the play of light and shadow upon the walls of the Castro Camera Store set for the Academy Award winning film “Milk”.
Sam Ball
Documentary | 5:00
Illustrator Wendy MacNaughton explores temporary shelters in an urban context.
Alexi Papalexopoulos
Horror | 25:00
Amid the neon haze and blood-soaked urban legends of a surreal San Francisco, a young woman’s night out spirals into terror as she’s hunted by the Zodiac Killer.
Dance Film SF brings dance to wider audiences by developing, producing and presenting innovative dance-based film and media, cultivating community and supporting and amplifying underrepresented artists.
Axel Robin
Contemporary Narrative | 9:37
A cheeky take on the behind-the-scenes genre — a film within a film uses dance to celebrate the quotidian actions of filmmaking.
Jacob Krupnick
Documentary | 14:20
Daniel Ajala, a self-taught ballet dancer in Nigeria who discovers the European dance form in the American movie, opens Leap of Dance Academy in his front yard: humble, rigorous, and free to anyone with dedication.
Mollie Moore
Screendance | 3:15
The film explores Queer visions and landscapes through dance and poetry, where Queer beings live freely and safely in new imagined spaces outside of urban and confined borders.
Phillip Kaminiak
Screendance | 6:10
An analogy between the modern human being, living in mass cities, and the phenomenon of the circle of death — observed in nature with ants who are separated from the main foraging party and lose the pheromone track.
Iván Asnicar, Ailén Cafiso
Screendance | 6:25
A park. Two bodies dance looking for the exit. Through the tour they find fantastic and real situations. The movement will carry them forward into the next age. A labyrinthine passage from Dance in the Park.
Laura Steiner
Urban Screendance | 2:51
A stylized meditation on bustling urban life in the Colombian capital city of Bogotá.
Alexia Oldini, Steven Gray
Experimental Screendance | 1:54
A merger of meditations on dance from choreographer Martha Graham with music by composer Philip Glass and video featuring professional bull rider and modern dancer Ouncie Mitchell at the 2022 Oakley Rodeo in Oakley, UT.
Iker Karrera, Alberto D. Centeno
Screendance | 3:21
Male trio, sharp, quirky movement.
22 seasons of presenting the work of local filmmakers with a vision of building and bringing community together through film.
Polla Ilariya Kozino
Animation, Music Video | 3:47
In the heart of war-torn Ukraine, a little girl finds refuge in her vivid imagination.
Catherine Ngo
Animation | 6:24
A knight struggles with the intense compulsion to sharpen his sword to perfection. His compulsion manifests as a monster, posing a threat that he cannot face alone.
August Rait
Experimental | 5:38
A day in the life of a high school student.
Sal Ardongde
Romance, Drama | 11:20
To rekindle their relationship, Mark and Loretta drive to Yosemite for an anniversary trip in Mark’s vintage jeep, which starts to show signs of mechanical problems.
David Nguyen
Drama | 4:18
A girl grows up under the quiet care of her widowed father, a man bound by traditional Asian values, who struggles to openly express his love.
Nada Djordjevich
Narrative | 9:03
A jaded New York writer and a laid-back California surfer navigate the murky and occasionally painful waters of a first date.
Chloë Fitzmaurice
Documentary | 9:06
Kayla Abe and David Murphy of Shuggie’s restaurant are challenging the very essence of culinary tradition by transforming what others see as food waste into gourmet masterpiece.
AJ Meininger
Experimental | 4:03
An experimental documentary/hybrid film chronicling the visceral and disorienting experiences of a woman with panic disorder.
Lyle Kahney
Narrative | 8:33
Spend the day with a SFMTA ticket officer, as he listens to pleas of his offenders.
Berenice Manzano Castro
Horror, Experimental | 10:00
Awakening in his childhood home, Chicano teen Luis Aguilar is forced to relive discriminations his Mexican immigrant parents have lived through, all while being pursued by a mysterious figure.
Felix Milionis, Laszlo Green
Experimental | 15:33
A Bay Area photographer, Gabi, struggles with the lack of umph in his overlooked work and becomes obsessed with Onyx, a renowned street muralist.
Carlos M. Mora
Psychological Thriller | 6:54
In a quiet Sicilian town, a chance encounter between three women spirals into a chilling unraveling of trust.
