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Screenings & Films

Peter Sellars: this body is so impermanent…

Watch in person at YBCA or stream on YBCA.org

August 12–14, 2022

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Screenings & Films

Sa Amin (Our Place)

Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & SOMA Pilipinas

Friday, June 17, 2022, 6–7:30 PM

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Screenings & Films

Diasporas of Resilience

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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Screenings & Films

SoMa Social Landscapes

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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Events

Generations of Filipinx Power

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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Festival

SF Urban Film Fest 2021

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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Screenings & Films

Bayview is Alive: Film Screening & Panel

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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Screenings & Films

AFTER LIFE (we survive) presents Rea Tajiri’s LORDVILLE

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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Screenings & Films

Jeffrey Gibson: Nothing is Eternal

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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Screenings & Films

Pocket-Size Cinema in Spain: Experiments in Super-8

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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Screenings & Films

let me tell you what home looks like

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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Screenings & Films

Diaspora: Identity and the Pathos of Global Labor

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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Festival

SF Urban Film Fest 2020

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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