TICKETS for STUCK (includes after party) at Victoria Theater on Thu Feb 1, 7p HERE Director Michael Berry – 2017 USA 90 min – Bay Area Premiere This year’s IndieFest Opening Night Program consists of two great music and dance films set in NYC. First, we’re showing STUCK, which was originally a hit live theater […]
TICKETS for Girl Walk//All Day (only) at Victoria Theater on Thu Feb 1, 9p HERE Director Jacob Krupnick – 2011 USA 71 min – IndieFest 2012 If you are coming to our Opening Night Film STUCK plan to stick around for this show. Have a drink at the bar and some pizza from Paxti and DNA […]
TICKETS for Rukus at Roxie Fri Feb 2, 7p HERE TICKETS for Rukus at Roxie Mon Feb 5, 915p HERE Director Brett Hanover – 2017 USA 86 min World Premiere – Hybrid Documentary/ LGBT/Punk/Furries Furries, filmmakers, kinksters, survivors. Ruckus is a fictionalized personal account of coming of age in Memphis at the turn of the century. […]
TICKETS for DO U WANT IT? at Roxie on Fri Feb 2, 7p HERE Director Josh Freund and Sam Radutzky – 2017 USA 92 min Bay Area Premiere, Local Filmmaker – Music/Documentary Papa Grows Funk was the quintessential New Orleans groove band, a supergroup of local players who drew fans from around the world for […]
TICKETS for WITHDRAWN at Roxie Fri Feb 2, 915p HERE TICKETS for WITHDRAWN at Roxie Thu Feb 8, 7p HERE Director Adrian Murray -2017 USA 74 min Bay Area Premiere – Drama / Youth Broke, basement-dwelling, millennial Aaron (Aaron Keogh) spends his days mostly alone. He preoccupies himself by playing video games, trying to solve a Rubik’s […]
TICKETS for SEQUENCE BREAK at Roxie Fri Feb 2, 915p HERE TICKETS for SEQUENCE BREAK at Roxie Wed Feb 7, 915p HERE Director Graham Skipper – 2017 USA 80 min Northern California Premiere – SciFi Horror A loner who restores arcade games finds the monotony of life broken when a gamer girl steps into his shop, the same day […]
TICKETS for EXISTO at 518 Val Sat Feb 3, 1p HERE Director Coke Sams – 1999 USA 94 min – IndieFest 2000 program note: The future: Jesse Helms and Bob Dornan are revered as gods, morality is state-mandated, and creativity is repressed. And a rag tag band of art revolutionaries, led by performance artist Existo, wage a guerrilla […]
Shorts 1: What You Don’t Know About Me: Dramatic Narrative Shorts Top-notch dialogue distinguishes these stories about the difficulty of being understood. Contains some violence. TICKETS for SHORTS 1 at Roxie Feb 3, 2p HERE TICKETS for SHORTS 1 at Roxie Feb 5, 7p HERE Twenty Minutes Gabriel Wilson, USA, 12 min Eric, a […]
TICKETS for FAR WESTERN at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 2p HERE TICKETS for FAR WESTERN at Roxie Thu Feb 8, 7p HERE Director James D. Payne – 2017 Japan 93 min California Premiere – Music/Documentary Amid the ashes of post-WWII Japan, the bittersweet sounds of American traditional country music drifted through the radio airwaves. Although intended […]
TICKETS for THE ROAD TO NOD at 518 Val Sat Feb 3, 3p HERE Director M.A. Littler – 2007 Germany 88 min – IndieFest 2008 program note: Aptly described as a “Film Noir Road Movie,” writer/director M.A. Littler’s The Road to Nod is a bibiclly-fueledcrime outing marked by stirring performances and breathtaking black and white cnematography. […]
TICKETS for THE S WORD at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 430p HERE TICKETS for THE S WORD at Roxie Tue Feb 6, 7p HERE Director Lisa J. Klein – 2017 USA 93 min Bay Area Premiere – Documentary This powerful documentary explores one of the most feared and misunderstood topics in the human experience – suicide. Putting a […]
Shorts 2: An Animated World showcases a wide variety of animation from around the world. TICKETS for SHORTS 2 at Roxie Feb 3, 430p HERE TICKETS for SHORTS 2 at Roxie Feb 6, 7p HERE Framed Marco Jemolo, Italy, 7 min FRAMED is a noir animated short-film, which explores the sensitive subject of alienation […]
TICKETS for VIVA at 518 Val Sat Feb 3, 5p HERE Director Anna Biller – 2007 USA 120 – IndieFest 2007 program note: “I am reworking old sexploitation movies from the 60s and early 70s from a woman’s point of view. Vintage sexploitation films interest me because they revolve around fantasies of a woman’s power over the […]
TICKETS for MOVING PARTS at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 7p HERE TICKETS for MOVING PARTS at Roxie Sat Mon Feb 5 7p HERE Director Emilie Upczak – 2017 Trinidad and Tobago 77 min West Coast Premiere – Drama/Narrative This quietly gripping drama puts a fresh spin on the subject of human trafficking by introducing us to a […]
TICKETS for KUPAL at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 7p HERE TICKETS for KUPAL at Roxie Sun Feb 4, 2p HERE Drector Kazem Mollaie – 2017 The Islamic Republic of Iran 81 min Bay Area Premiere – Drama / Middle Eastern Dr. Ahmad Kupal is a 50-year-old hunter and taxidermist living on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran. Recently, […]
TICKETS for SORE LOSERS at 518 Val Sat Feb 3, 730p HERE Director John Michael McCarthy – 1997 USA 90 min – IndieFest 1999 program note: The winner of Video Eyeball Magazine’s “Best Drive in Movie Award” this is the ultimate in comic magazine delicatessen for fans of punk, horror and sci fi. Featuring the ’50s […]
TICKETS for TOP KNOT DETECTIVE at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 915p HERE Director Aaron McCann & Dominic Pearce – 2017 Australia 87 min – Mockumentary/Comedy A behind the scenes peak at the greatest television Samurai Drama no one knows and its enigmatic and tragically lost star, Takashi Takamoto. Robots, Product Placement, and island-sized egos fill this […]
TICKETS for BLACK CAT at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 915p HERE TICKETS for BLACK CAT at Roxie Mon Feb 5, 915p HERE Director Peter Pardini – 2017 USA 85 min Bay Area Premiere – Mockumentary Black Cat is a satire on true crime documentaries gone wild. When a near-decade old murder case involving a movie star […]
TICKETS for KABOOM at 518 Val Sat Feb 3, 930p HERE Director Gregg Araki – 2011 USA 86 min – IndieFest 2011 program note: Kaboom is a wild and sex-drenched horror-comedy thriller that tells the story of Smith (Thomas Dekker), and ambisexual 18-year-old college freshman who stumbles upon a monstrous conspiracy in a seemingly idyllic Southern […]
TICKETS for RAIDERS: ADAPTATION at 518 Val Sun Feb 4, 1p HERE Director Eric Zala – 1982-1989 USA 100 min – IndieFest 2005 program note: IndieFest is delighted to host this extremely rare presentation of the semi legendary shot-for-shot re-creation of Raiders of the Lost Ark made by three 12 year-olds in Mississippi. Eric Zala, Jayson Lamb and […]
TICKETS for KUPAL at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 7p HERE TICKETS for KUPAL at Roxie Sun Feb 4, 2p HERE Drector Kazem Mollaie – 2017 The Islamic Republic of Iran 81 min Bay Area Premiere – Drama / Middle Eastern Dr. Ahmad Kupal is a 50-year-old hunter and taxidermist living on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran. Recently, […]
TICKETS for SHUT YER DIRTY MOUTH at 518 Val Sun Feb 4, 3p HERE Director Robert Taischer – 2002 USA 75 min – IndieFest 2002 program note: Robert Taicher earned his Indie credentials by producing Alejandro Jodorowsky’s THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, and working on SANTA SANGRE. His latest film is an outrageous, often hilarious, slice-of-life […]
TICKETS for RUMINATIONS at 518 Valencia Sun Feb 4, 430p HERE TICKETS for RUMINATIONS at Roxie Sun Wed Feb 7, 915p HERE Director Robert James – 2018 USA 78 min World Premiere, Local Filmmaker – Documentary/GLBT A gender-bending coming-of-age story of Rumi Missabu, the iconoclast co-founder of San Francisco’s infamous Cockettes. He left Hollywood 50 years […]
TICKETS for HOLDEN ON at Roxie Sun Feb 4, 7p HERE TICKETS for HOLDEN ON at Roxie Tue Feb 6 915p HERE Director Tamlin Hall – 2017 USA 101 min Bay Area Premiere – Drama / Youth No longer your average boy-next-door, Holden Layfield weaves audiences through his harrowing tale in this film set in […]
TICKETS for GINGER NATION at Roxie Sun Feb 4, 7p HERE TICKETS for GINGER NATION at Roxie Thu Feb 8, 915p HERE Directors Jonathan Soja and Shawn Hitchins – 2017 Canada 56 min West Coast Premiere – Comedy/Documentary Redheads are hot and fiery gay comic Shawn Hitchins has made flame-haired world domination his mission. He […]
TICKETS for PASSING STONES at 518 Val Sun Feb 4, 730p HERE Drector Roger Majkowski – 2001 USA 94 min – IndieFest 2001 program note: Leon (writer/director Roger Majkowski) is a ferociously bitter 30-year-old paperboy (he prefers the term “circulation manager”) still living at home with his nagging mother and dope-addled man-boy brother, Anthony. When a […]
TICKETS for VIDAR THE VAMPIRE at Roxie Sun Feb 4, 915p HERE Directors Thomas Aske Berg & Fredrik Waldeland – 2017 Norway 83 min Northern California Premiere – Horror Comedy Hailing from the land of Black Metal and burning churches comes a story of a farmer who accepts the blood of Jesus only to become […]
TICKETS for THE ICARUS LINE MUST DIE at Roxie Sun Feb 4, 915p HERE TICKETS for THE ICARUS LINE MUST DIE at Roxie Tue Feb 6, 915p HERE Director Michael Grodner – 2017 USA 82 min Bay Area Premiere – Music/Narrative Fifteen years ago the band, Icarus Line, was rocketing to the top of the […]
TICKETS for BLUE RUIN at 518 Val Sun Feb 4, 930p HERE Director Jeremy Saulnier – 2013 USA 92 min – IndieFest 2014 program note: Back in 2007, SF Indie played Jeremy Saulnier’s riotous horror comedy Murder Party, and after making a name for himself as a cinematographer in the interim – most notably for the dreamy […]
TICKETS for MOVING PARTS at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 7p HERE TICKETS for MOVING PARTS at Roxie Sat Mon Feb 5 7p HERE Director Emilie Upczak – 2017 Trinidad and Tobago 77 min West Coast Premiere – Drama/Narrative This quietly gripping drama puts a fresh spin on the subject of human trafficking by introducing us to a […]
Shorts 1: What You Don’t Know About Me: Dramatic Narrative Shorts Top-notch dialogue distinguishes these stories about the difficulty of being understood. Contains some violence. TICKETS for SHORTS 1 at Roxie Feb 3, 2p HERE TICKETS for SHORTS 1 at Roxie Feb 5, 7p HERE Twenty Minutes Gabriel Wilson, USA, 12 min Eric, a […]
TICKETS for Rukus at Roxie Fri Feb 2, 7p HERE TICKETS for Rukus at Roxie Mon Feb 5, 915p HERE Director Brett Hanover – 2017 USA 86 min World Premiere – Hybrid Documentary/ LGBT/Punk/Furries Furries, filmmakers, kinksters, survivors. Ruckus is a fictionalized personal account of coming of age in Memphis at the turn of the century. […]
TICKETS for BLACK CAT at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 915p HERE TICKETS for BLACK CAT at Roxie Mon Feb 5, 915p HERE Director Peter Pardini – 2017 USA 85 min Bay Area Premiere – Mockumentary Black Cat is a satire on true crime documentaries gone wild. When a near-decade old murder case involving a movie star […]
TICKETS for THE S WORD at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 430p HERE TICKETS for THE S WORD at Roxie Tue Feb 6, 7p HERE Director Lisa J. Klein – 2017 USA 93 min Bay Area Premiere – Documentary This powerful documentary explores one of the most feared and misunderstood topics in the human experience – suicide. Putting a […]
Shorts 2: An Animated World showcases a wide variety of animation from around the world. TICKETS for SHORTS 2 at Roxie Feb 3, 430p HERE TICKETS for SHORTS 2 at Roxie Feb 6, 7p HERE Framed Marco Jemolo, Italy, 7 min FRAMED is a noir animated short-film, which explores the sensitive subject of alienation […]
TICKETS for THE ICARUS LINE MUST DIE at Roxie Sun Feb 4, 915p HERE TICKETS for THE ICARUS LINE MUST DIE at Roxie Tue Feb 6, 915p HERE Director Michael Grodner – 2017 USA 82 min Bay Area Premiere – Music/Narrative Fifteen years ago the band, Icarus Line, was rocketing to the top of the […]
TICKETS for HOLDEN ON at Roxie Sun Feb 4, 7p HERE TICKETS for HOLDEN ON at Roxie Tue Feb 6 915p HERE Director Tamlin Hall – 2017 USA 101 min Bay Area Premiere – Drama / Youth No longer your average boy-next-door, Holden Layfield weaves audiences through his harrowing tale in this film set in […]
Shorts 3: The Best of Us: Documentary Profiles From a kid boxer to an arborist prepping for the apocalypse, these five unique people are making the most of their time. 87 min TICKETS for SHORTS 3 at Roxie Feb 7, 7p HERE TICKETS for SHORTS 3 at Roxie Feb 10, 2p HERE Beyond the […]
TICKETS for BETWEEN LAND AND SEA at Roxie Wed Feb 7, 7p HERE TICKETS for BETWEEN LAND AND SEA at Roxie Sun Feb 11, 2p HERE Director Ross Whitaker – 2017 Ireland 87 min West Coast Premiere – Adventure/Documentary Get ready for an adrenaline high and take a plunge into the ice cold waters of […]
TICKETS for RUMINATIONS at Roxie Sun Feb 4, 430p HERE TICKETS for RUMINATIONS at Roxie Sun Wed Feb 7, 915p HERE Director Robert James – 2018 USA 78 min World Premiere, Local Filmmaker – Documentary/GLBT A gender-bending coming-of-age story of Rumi Missabu, the iconoclast co-founder of San Francisco’s infamous Cockettes. He left Hollywood 50 years ago on […]
TICKETS for SEQUENCE BREAK at Roxie Fri Feb 2, 915p HERE TICKETS for SEQUENCE BREAK at Roxie Wed Feb 7, 915p HERE Director Graham Skipper – 2017 USA 80 min Northern California Premiere – SciFi Horror A loner who restores arcade games finds the monotony of life broken when a gamer girl steps into his shop, the same day […]
TICKETS for WITHDRAWN at Roxie Fri Feb 2, 915p HERE TICKETS for WITHDRAWN at Roxie Thu Feb 8, 7p HERE Director Adrian Murray -2017 USA 74 min Bay Area Premiere – Drama / Youth Broke, basement-dwelling, millennial Aaron (Aaron Keogh) spends his days mostly alone. He preoccupies himself by playing video games, trying to solve a Rubik’s […]
TICKETS for FAR WESTERN at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 2p HERE TICKETS for FAR WESTERN at Roxie Thu Feb 8, 7p HERE Director James D. Payne – 2017 Japan 93 min California Premiere – Music/Documentary Amid the ashes of post-WWII Japan, the bittersweet sounds of American traditional country music drifted through the radio airwaves. Although intended […]
TICKETS for GINGER NATION at Roxie Sun Feb 4, 7p HERE TICKETS for GINGER NATION at Roxie Thu Feb 8, 915p HERE Directors Jonathan Soja and Shawn Hitchins – 2017 Canada 56 min West Coast Premiere – Comedy/Documentary Redheads are hot and fiery gay comic Shawn Hitchins has made flame-haired world domination his mission. He […]
FREE – Come and meet festival programmers from the vast, varied and vital film festivals of the Bay Area. If you ask the right question many film festival secrets with be revealed. Representatives invited to represent these awesome SF organizations/events: SFFILM, Center for Asian American Media, SF Jewish Film Festival, Alamo Drafthouse, SF MOMA, SF Documentary Festival, […]
TICKETS for RABBIT at Roxie Fri Feb 9, 7p HERE TICKETS for RABBIT at Roxie Mon Feb 12 915p HERE Director Luke Shanahan – 2017 Australia 99 min West Coast Premiere – SciFi Thriller Despite being thousands of miles away, Maude can still feel her abducted twin sister Cleo through what may be a […]
THE OPENING CEREMONIES OF THE OLYMPIC BAD ART GALLERY “THE OPENING CEREMONIES AT THE OLYMPIC BAD ART SHOW ARE AN EXTRAORDINARY AND INTRICATELY CHOREOGRAPHED EXTRAVAGANZA, FEATURING AN AMAZING EXPLOSION OF COLOR AND MUSIC, WHICH ALLOW THE HOST GALLERY SCOPE TO SHOWCASE ITS UNIQUENESS, WHILE ADHERING TO VARIOUS PROTOCOLS THAT HAVE EVOLVED SINCE THE FIRST MODERN […]
TICKETS for TORMENTING THE HEN at Roxie Fri Feb 9, 915p HERE TICKETS for TORMENTING THE HEN at Roxie Tue Feb 13, 915p HERE Director Theodore Collatos – 2017 USA 77 min Bay Area Premiere – Drama / LGBT When playwright Claire (Dameka Hayes) is invited to set her latest political work at a rural […]
TICKETS for RON GOOSSENS, LOW-BUDGET STUNTMAN at Roxie Fri Feb 9, 915p HERE TICKETS for RON GOOSSENS, LOW-BUDGET STUNTMAN at Roxie Tue Feb 13, 915p HERE Directors Steffen Haars & Flip Van der Kuil – 2017 Netherlands 83 min West Coast Premiere – Dark Comedy An overnight YouTube sensation finds himself embarking on a career […]
TICKETS for I AM A KNIFE WITH LEGS at 518 Val Sat Feb 10, 1p HERE Director Bennet Jones – 2015 USA 90 min – IndieFest 2015 program note: First his girlfriend dies in a suicide bombing. Then a fatwa is issued against him. And now international Europop star Bené’s eclair is weird. Seven years and […]
Shorts 3: The Best of Us: Documentary Profiles From a kid boxer to an arborist prepping for the apocalypse, these five unique people are making the most of their time. 87 min TICKETS for SHORTS 3 at Roxie Feb 7, 7p HERE TICKETS for SHORTS 3 at Roxie Feb 10, 2p HERE Beyond the […]
TICKETS for RAMEN HEADS at Roxie Sat Feb 10, 2p HERE TICKETS for RAMEN HEADS at Roxie Tue Feb 13, 7p HERE Director Koki Shigeno – 2017 Japan 93 min California Premiere – Food/Documentary Considered an edible embrace, comforting ephemera and an art form by master chefs and legions of fans, ramen—the perfectly slurpable combination […]
TICKETS for HARMONY AND ME at 518 Val Sat Feb 10, 3p HERE Diector Robert Byington – 2010 USA 75 min – IndieFest 2010 program note: Harmony (a hilarious, wry Jutin Rice) is a charmingly quirky slacker in the depths of a yearlong post-breakup funk that shows no signs of abating. The highlights of his days […]
TICKETS for THE MANHATTAN FRONT at Roxie Sat Feb 10, 430p HERE TICKETS for THE MANHATTAN FRONT at Roxie Wed Feb 14 7p HERE Director Cathy Lee Crane – 2017 USA 89 min World Premiere – Drama / Musical / Historic In 1915, a German saboteur comes to Manhattan and tries to co-opt the progressive labor movement […]
Shorts 5: The Hustle: Dark Comedy Shorts Give us your tired, your jaded, your sellouts, and your characters making unintentionally hilarious career choices: this program finds the dark humor in “making it.” 84 min. Contains sex and violence. TICKETS for SHORTS 5 at Roxie Feb 10, 430p HERE TICKETS for SHORTS 5 at Roxie Feb […]
TICKETS for KILL ME PLEASE at 518 Val Sat Feb 10, 5p HERE Director Anita Rocha de Silveira – 2016 Brazil 101 min – IndieFest 2017 program note: The classic coming-of-age premise “You guys wanna go see a dead body?” from Stand By Me gets an update and twist as fifteen-year-old Bia becomes obsessed with a series of […]
TICKETS for THE CALIFORNIA NO at Roxie Sat Feb 10, 7p HERE TICKETS for THE CALIFORNIA NO at Roxie Mon Feb 12, 915p HERE Director Ned Ehrbar – 2017 USA 84 min World Premiere – Comedy / Sexuality During his first visit to couples therapy, a Los Angeles writer discovers that he’s actually in an […]
TICKETS for FOR NOW at Roxie Sat Feb 10, 7p HERE TICKETS for FOR NOW at Roxie Wed Feb 14, 915p HERE Director Hannah Barlow – 2017 USA 79 min Bay Area Premiere – Comedy / Drama Hannah, an Australian ex-pat living in Los Angeles, organizes an audition at the San Francisco Ballet Company for her younger […]
Live reading from this year’s award winning screenplays plus panel discussion with working writers: Tony Dushane, Sarah Kass, Bears Fonte, James Carlson. Live Read Scripts: Grace & Vengeance by James Carlson (scenes from the feature script) and Sergio and the Whale by Anna Kriegel (short script in its entirety). Complimentary drinks and nibbles. Sat Feb 10, 7p, […]
TICKETS for MUSCLECAR at Roxie Sat Feb 10, 915p HERE Director Dwayne Labbe – 2017 Australia 77 min North American Premiere – Ozploitation Horror/Midnight Movie When Bambi blows her last cash on the car of her dreams, she can’t afford to drive it… until the alcohol-rich blood of chauvinist men finds its way into her gas […]
TICKETS for CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE JESUS JERK at Roxie Sat Feb 10, 915p HERE TICKETS for CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE JESUS JERK at Roxie Thu Feb 15, 7p HERE Director Eric Stoltz – 2017 USA 95 min Bay Area Premiere – Coming of Age/Comedy Actor Eric Stoltz’s feature film debut based on the book […]
TICKETS for FUNNY HA HA at 518 Val Sun Feb 11, 1p HERE Director Andrew Bujalsky – 2002 USA 89 min – IndieFest 2004 program note: Five minutes, is that so long? Marnie would like to go five minutes without something embarrassing happening to her. But for the beleaguered heroine of Andrew Bujalski’s spot-on exploration of […]
Shorts 4: Fateful Intersections: Dramatic Shorts Stories about a seemingly random encounter that changes everything. Featuring atmosphere galore, this is a true director’s showcase. 83 min. Contains sex and violence. TICKETS for SHORTS 4 at Roxie Feb 11, 2p HERE TICKETS for SHORTS 4 at Roxie Feb 12, 7p HERE Pluck Mavi Phillips USA, […]
TICKETS for BETWEEN LAND AND SEA at Roxie Wed Feb 7, 7p HERE TICKETS for BETWEEN LAND AND SEA at Roxie Sun Feb 11, 2p HERE Director Ross Whitaker – 2017 Ireland 87 min West Coast Premiere – Adventure/Documentary Get ready for an adrenaline high and take a plunge into the ice cold waters of […]
TICKETS for BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO at 518 VAL Sun Feb 11, 3p HERE Director Peter Strickland – 2012 UK 91 min – IndieFest 2013 program note: Toby Jones (The Girl) plays Gilderoy, a socially reserved British sound mixer invited to work on a film in Italy. Unbeknownst to him, his new assignment turns out to be […]
TICKETS for HER MAGNUM OPUS at Roxie Sun Feb 11, 430p HERE TICKETS for HER MAGNUM OPUS at Roxie Mon Feb 12, 7p HERE Director Marta Renzi – 2017 USA 61 min Bay Area Premiere – Dance / Aging A freewheeling narrative enacted almost entirely through movement and music, Her Magnum Opus is Marta Renzi’s ode to creativity and […]
Shorts 6: The Girls Are Alright: Light Comedy Shorts Don’t you love a happy ending? Life’s dilemmas are a piece of cake for these protagonists. 83 min TICKETS for SHORTS 6 at Roxie Feb 11, 430p HERE TICKETS for SHORTS 6 at Roxie Feb 14, 7p HERE The Makeover Kaeli Quick, USA, 3 min […]
TICKETS for JIMMY AND JUDY at 518 Val Sun Feb 11, 5p HERE Directors Jonathan Schroder & Randall Rubin – 2006 USA 99 min – IndieFest 2006 program note: It’s the IndieFest late show and we’re quite sure that Jimmy and Judy is exactly what you’re looking for. Mental illness, ultraviolence, sexual perversion, meth cults, nudity, family dysfunction, […]
TICKETS for GUITAR MAN at Roxie Sun Feb 11, 7p HERE TICKETS for GUITAR MAN at Roxie Thu Feb 15, 915p HERE Director Rocky Capella – 2018 USA 98 min Bay Area Premiere, Local Filmmaker – Drama / Youth / Prison Lifelong Musician BUZZY MARTIN began teaching at-risk kids about music to help them through the trial of their […]
TICKETS for THE MIDNIGHTERS at Roxie Sun Feb 11, 7p HERE Director Julian Fort – 2017 USA 86 min Northern California Premiere – Crime Thriller Lifelong character actor Leon Russom (Prison Break, The Big Lebowski) stars as a safe-cracker fresh off 30 years in prison. When his estranged son offers him for one last job and a […]
TICKETS for RAIN THE COLOR OF BLUE WITH A LITTLE RED IN IT at 518 Val Sun Feb 11, 730p HERE Director Christopher Kirby – 2015 Niger 75 min – IndieFest 2016 program note: Prince goes Sahel in this remake of Purple Rain in the Saharan Desert. The first feature film in the Tamashek language (which has […]
TICKETS for MAZE at Roxie Sun Feb 11, 915p HERE TICKETS for MAZE at Roxie Thu Feb 15, 915p HERE Director Stephen Burke – 2017 Ireland 93 min Northern California Premiere – Prison Thriller Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from ‘the most secure prison in Europe,’ the HMP Maze, […]
TICKETS for BUBBA HO-TEP at 518 Val Sun Feb 11, 930 HERE Director Don Coscarelli – 2001 USA 92 min – IndieFest 2003 program note: Our incredible Closing Night Gala is Don (Phantasm) Coscarelli’s hilarious ass-kicking tribute to the King of Rock n Roll. It’s also Bruce (Evil Dead) Campbell’s first starring role since Army of Darkness.What […]
TICKETS for HER MAGNUM OPUS at Roxie Sun Feb 11, 430p HERE TICKETS for HER MAGNUM OPUS at Roxie Mon Feb 12, 7p HERE Director Marta Renzi – 2017 USA 61 min Bay Area Premiere – Dance / Aging A freewheeling narrative enacted almost entirely through movement and music, Her Magnum Opus is Marta Renzi’s ode to creativity and […]
Shorts 4: Fateful Intersections: Dramatic Shorts Stories about a seemingly random encounter that changes everything. Featuring atmosphere galore, this is a true director’s showcase. 83 min. Contains sex and violence. TICKETS for SHORTS 4 at Roxie Feb 11, 2p HERE TICKETS for SHORTS 4 at Roxie Feb 12, 7p HERE Pluck Mavi Phillips USA, […]
TICKETS for RABBIT at Roxie Fri Feb 9, 7p HERE TICKETS for RABBIT at Roxie Mon Feb 12 915p HERE Director Luke Shanahan – 2017 Australia 99 min West Coast Premiere – SciFi Thriller Despite being thousands of miles away, Maude can still feel her abducted twin sister Cleo through what may be a […]
TICKETS for THE CALIFORNIA NO at Roxie Sat Feb 10, 7p HERE TICKETS for THE CALIFORNIA NO at Roxie Mon Feb 12, 915p HERE Director Ned Ehrbar – 2017 USA 84 min World Premiere – Comedy / Sexuality During his first visit to couples therapy, a Los Angeles writer discovers that he’s actually in an […]
Shorts 5: The Hustle: Dark Comedy Shorts Give us your tired, your jaded, your sellouts, and your characters making unintentionally hilarious career choices: this program finds the dark humor in “making it.” 84 min. Contains sex and violence. TICKETS for SHORTS 5 at Roxie Feb 10, 430p HERE TICKETS for SHORTS 5 at Roxie Feb […]
TICKETS for RAMEN HEADS at Roxie Sat Feb 10, 2p HERE TICKETS for RAMEN HEADS at Roxie Tue Feb 13, 7p HERE Director Koki Shigeno – 2017 Japan 93 min California Premiere – Food/Documentary Considered an edible embrace, comforting ephemera and an art form by master chefs and legions of fans, ramen—the perfectly slurpable combination […]
TICKETS for TORMENTING THE HEN at Roxie Fri Feb 9, 915p HERE TICKETS for TORMENTING THE HEN at Roxie Tue Feb 13, 915p HERE Director Theodore Collatos – 2017 USA 77 min Bay Area Premiere – Drama / LGBT When playwright Claire (Dameka Hayes) is invited to set her latest political work at a rural […]
TICKETS for RON GOOSSENS, LOW-BUDGET STUNTMAN at Roxie Fri Feb 9, 915p HERE TICKETS for RON GOOSSENS, LOW-BUDGET STUNTMAN at Roxie Tue Feb 13, 915p HERE Directors Steffen Haars & Flip Van der Kuil – 2017 Netherlands 83 min West Coast Premiere – Dark Comedy An overnight YouTube sensation finds himself embarking on a career […]
TICKETS for THE MANHATTAN FRONT at Roxie Sat Feb 10, 430p HERE TICKETS for THE MANHATTAN FRONT at Roxie Wed Feb 14 7p HERE Director Cathy Lee Crane – 2017 USA 89 min World Premiere – Drama / Musical / Historic In 1915, a German saboteur comes to Manhattan and tries to co-opt the progressive labor movement […]
Shorts 6: The Girls Are Alright: Light Comedy Shorts Don’t you love a happy ending? Life’s dilemmas are a piece of cake for these protagonists. 83 min TICKETS for SHORTS 6 at Roxie Feb 11, 430p HERE TICKETS for SHORTS 6 at Roxie Feb 14, 7p HERE The Makeover Kaeli Quick, USA, 3 min […]
TICKETS for FOR NOW at Roxie Sat Feb 10, 7p HERE TICKETS for FOR NOW at Roxie Wed Feb 14, 915p HERE Director Hannah Barlow – 2017 USA 79 min Bay Area Premiere – Comedy / Drama Hannah, an Australian ex-pat living in Los Angeles, organizes an audition at the San Francisco Ballet Company for her younger […]
TICKETS for THE MISOGYNISTS at Roxie Thu Feb 15, 7p HERE Director Onur Tukel – US 85 min West Coast Premere – CLOSING NIGHT FILM In a single, fully-stocked hotel room on the night of the 2016 general election, two Trump supporters celebrate the unexpected results, in the latest film from indie provocateur Onur Tukel (who starred […]
TICKETS for CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE JESUS JERK at Roxie Sat Feb 10, 915p HERE TICKETS for CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE JESUS JERK at Roxie Thu Feb 15, 7p HERE Director Eric Stoltz – 2017 USA 95 min Bay Area Premiere – Coming of Age/Comedy Actor Eric Stoltz’s feature film debut based on the book […]
TICKETS for GUITAR MAN at Roxie Sun Feb 11, 7p HERE TICKETS for GUITAR MAN at Roxie Thu Feb 15, 915p HERE Director Rocky Capella – 2018 USA 98 min Bay Area Premiere, Local Filmmaker – Drama / Youth / Prison Lifelong Musician BUZZY MARTIN began teaching at-risk kids about music to help them through the trial of their […]
TICKETS for MAZE at Roxie Sun Feb 11, 915p HERE TICKETS for MAZE at Roxie Thu Feb 15, 915p HERE Director Stephen Burke – 2017 Ireland 93 min Northern California Premiere – Prison Thriller Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from ‘the most secure prison in Europe,’ the HMP Maze, […]
