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Screenings & Films
Watch in person at YBCA or stream on YBCA.org
August 12–14, 2022
Screenings & Films
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & SOMA Pilipinas
Friday, June 17, 2022, 6–7:30 PM
Screenings & Films
SF Urban Film Fest
Saturday, October 2, 2021
An afternoon of film programs and artist talks around immigration to the South of Market, the power of mutual aid, and the power of writing a community narrative.
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SF Urban Film Fest
Saturday, September 25, 2021
An afternoon of exploring the social landscapes of the South of Market with artist talks, film screenings, and panel discussions.
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SF Urban Film Fest
Saturday, August 28, 2021
A night of artist talks, one-act plays, and film screenings celebrating Filipinx power in South of Market.
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SF Urban Film Fest
February 14–21, 2021
This year’s festival explores enduring injustices and environmental destruction alongside the resilience of neighborhoods and the communities that fill them.
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Presented by SF Urban Film Fest
December 17, 2020, 4-5:30 PM
Short films based on historic murals highlighting the Bayview’s everyday heroes and a panel discussion featuring Bayview community leaders.
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On view on YBCA.org
December 11, 6 PM–December 13, 2020, 11:59 PM
Watch Tajiri’s documentary and a new conversation between the artist and AFTER LIFE curator Thea Quiray Tagle.
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Presented by YBCA and the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art
October 30–November 3, 2020
Conceived during this pandemic era, the immersive video work depicts the American flag in unsettling stillness, as a marker of territory, and projected onto bodies, while set to a heartrending soundtrack.
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Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
February 27, 2020, 7:30 PM
A program of contemporary and historic films made in Super-8mm by Spanish filmmakers.
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SF Urban Film Fest
February 8, 2020, 7 PM
As cities gentrify, black artists and activists create new narratives, shift the audience gaze, amplify unheard voices, and showcase their resilience.
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SF Urban Film Fest
February 6, 2020, 6:30 PM
Films and a panel discussion explore personal experiences of diaspora within the global labor market.
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SF Urban Film Fest
February 3–8, 2020
Exploring Place and the Populist Revolt, investigating how cities are ground zero for the struggle to find or hold on to a place, for both incumbents and newly arrived.
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SF Urban Film Fest
February 3, 2020, 6:30 PM
Alex Yong Kang Chow co-curates this event looking at the Hong Kong demonstrations from the lived experience of the student protestors.
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Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
January 23, 2020, 7:30 PM
New and recent works by the master filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky.
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Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
December 8, 2019, 5 PM
Cinematheque closes its 2019 exhibition year with a rare screening of Mekas’ legendary film.
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Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
November 7, 2019
Sylvia Schedelbauer appears in person to present a retrospective of recent films.
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Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
October 24, 2019
Jodie Mack appears in person to present a collection of works.
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Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
September 26, 2019
Makino Takashi appears in person to present this digital video work.
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Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
August 8, 2019
This tribute includes several of Solomon’s greatest films.
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