Upcoming Movies
SDiFF Presents: Kidnapped
- Thu, Mar 26
Director: Marco Bellocchio Run Time: 134 min. Release Year: 2023 Language: Italian
Starring: Barbara Ronchi, Enea Sala, Fausto Russo Alesi, Leonardo Maltese, Paolo Pierobon
In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope’s soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara...
What Does That Nature Say to You
- Fri, Mar 27
- Sat, Mar 28
- Wed, Apr 1
- Thu, Apr 2
Director: Hong Sang-soo Run Time: 109 min. Release Year: 2025 Language: Korean
Starring: Cho Yun-hee, Ha Seong-guk, Kang So-yi, Kwon Hae-hyo, Park Mi-so
Synopsis: Donghwa (Ha Seongguk) is a fledgling poet in his thirties. He rejects material aspirations and seeks to...
The President’s Cake
- Fri, Mar 27
- Sat, Mar 28
- Tue, Mar 31
- Wed, Apr 1
- Thu, Apr 2
Director: Hasan Hadi Run Time: 105 min. Release Year: 2025
Starring: Banin Ahmad Nayef, Muthanna Malaghi, Rahim AlHaj, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat
Synopsis: While people across 1990s Iraq struggle to survive the war and food shortages, the President requires each...
Lumière, Le Cinéma
- Fri, Mar 27
- Sat, Mar 28
- Sun, Mar 29
- Mon, Mar 30
- Wed, Apr 1
- Thu, Apr 2
Director: Thierry Frémaux Run Time: 103 min. Release Year: 2024 Language: French
Starring: Bertrand Tavernier, Francis Ford Coppola, Roman Coppola, Thierry Frémaux, Valerio Mastandrea
Synopsis: In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the...
Sirāt
- Fri, Mar 27
- Sat, Mar 28
- Sun, Mar 29
- Mon, Mar 30
- Tue, Mar 31
- Thu, Apr 2
Director: Oliver Laxe Run Time: 115 min. Release Year: 2025 Language: Spanish
Starring: Bruno Núñez, Joshua Liam Henderson, Richard Bellamy, Sergi López, Stefania Gadda
Synopsis: Luis travels through southern Morocco with his son, Esteban, searching for his daughter, who was last seen...
“This is America at 250: Frederick Wiseman” – Hospital
- Sun, Mar 29
Director: Frederick Wiseman Run Time: 84 min. Release Year: 1970
Synopsis: HOSPITAL shows the daily activities of a large urban hospital with the emphasis on the emergency ward...
A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant
- Mon, Mar 30
Director: Bill Banowsky Run Time: 89 min. Release Year: 2025
Starring: Patrick Oliphant
Please join us for a special FREE screening and Q&A for Savage Art: The Life and Cartoons of...
DGC Video: The Young Girls of Rochefort
- Tue, Mar 31
Director: Jacques Demy Run Time: 126 min. Release Year: 1967 Language: French
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Françoise Dorléac, Gene Kelly, Jacques Perrin
…They're singing and dancing in the streets.
The Drama
- Fri, Apr 3
- Sat, Apr 4
- Sun, Apr 5
- Mon, Apr 6
Director: Kristoffer Borgli Run Time: 105 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Alana Haim, Mamoudou Athie, Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Zoë Winters
You are cordially invited to…
DGC Video: The Puffy Chair (4K Restoration)
- Tue, Apr 7
Director: Jay Duplass Run Time: 85 min. Release Year: 2006
Starring: Julie Fischer, Katie Aselton, Larry Duplass, Mark Duplass, Rhett Wilkins
Synopsis: Josh (Mark Duplass) wins an overstuffed recliner online and drives from New York to Atlanta to deliver...
Bonkers Half-Assed Midnight: Demonwarp
- Sat, Apr 11
Director: Emmett Alston Run Time: 91 min. Release Year: 1988
Starring: Billy Jayne, Colleen McDermott, David Michael O'Neill, George Kennedy, Pamela Gilbert
Enter a prime-evil world of future shock and alien terror.
I’ve Seen All I Need to See + Q&A w/ Cast & Crew
- Tue, Apr 14
Director: Zeshaan Younus Run Time: 84 min. Release Year: 2025
Starring: John R. Smith Jnr, Renee Gagner, Rosie McDonald
Memory is a mirror. Join us for a free screening of the award-winning indie film, I’ve Seen All...
Two Prosecutors
Director: Sergei Loznitsa Run Time: 118 min. Release Year: 2025 Language: Russian
Starring: Aleksandr Filippenko, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Anatoliy Belyy, Andris Keišs, Vytautas Kaniušonis
Synopsis: The latest film from the great Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa (My Joy) is a scalpel-precise tale of...
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
Director: Courtney Stephens, Michael Almereyda Run Time: 89 min. Release Year: 2025
Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Allen Ginsberg, Chloë Sevigny, Scott McVay, Timothy Leary
Synopsis: The daring experimenter Dr. John C. Lilly dedicated his life to radical self-investigation and unlocking the mysteries...
Palestine ’36
Director: Annemarie Jacir Run Time: 120 min. Release Year: 2025
Starring: Billy Howle, Hiam Abbass, Karim Daoud Anaya, Robert Aramayo, Yasmine Al Massri
Synopsis: In 1936, as the British Empire tightens its grip on Palestine, Yusuf is caught between his village...
German Currents Kino: Mirrors No. 3
- Fri, Apr 17
- Sun, Apr 19
Director: Christian Petzold Run Time: 86 min. Release Year: 2025 Language: German
Starring: Barbara Auer, Enno Trebs, Matthias Brandt, Paula Beer, Philip Froissant
Presented as part of AMONG FRIENDS – UNTER FREUNDEN, a campaign of the Goethe-Institut USA to celebrate and...
Film Geeks San Diego: The Tall T
- Sun, Apr 19
Director: Budd Boetticher Run Time: 78 min. Release Year: 1957
Starring: Arthur Hunnicutt, Maureen O'Sullivan, Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Skip Homeier
Taut! Torrid! Tremendous! T Is for Terror!
DGC Video: Drowning by Numbers
- Tue, Apr 21
Director: Peter Greenaway Run Time: 119 min. Release Year: 1988
Starring: Bernard Hill, Jason Edwards, Joan Plowright, Joely Richardson, Juliet Stevenson
Three Women And A Coroner.
My Father’s Shadow
Director: Akinola Davies Jr. Run Time: 93 min. Release Year: 2025
Starring: Chibuike Marvellous Egbo, Efon Wini, Godwin Egbo, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Tosin Adeyemi
Synopsis: Over the course of a single day’s journey into and around Lagos, Folarin and his young sons,...
Ghost Elephants
Director: Werner Herzog Run Time: 99 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Kerllen Costa, Steve Boyes, Werner Herzog, Xui, Xui Dawid
An epic search for a mythical giant.
German Currents Kino: Amrum
- Fri, May 15
- Sun, May 17
Director: Fatih Akin Run Time: 93 min. Release Year: 2025 Language: German
Starring: Diane Kruger, Hark Bohm, Jasper Billerbeck, Kian Köppke, Laura Tonke
Presented as part of AMONG FRIENDS – UNTER FREUNDEN, a campaign of the Goethe-Institut USA to celebrate and...
Film Geeks San Diego: The Outlaw Josey Wales
- Sun, May 31
Director: Clint Eastwood Run Time: 135 min. Release Year: 1976
Starring: Bill McKinney, Chief Dan George, Clint Eastwood, John Vernon, Sondra Locke
...an army of one.
Film Geeks San Diego: The Man with a Shotgun
- Sun, Jun 14
Director: Seijun Suzuki Run Time: 84 min. Release Year: 1961 Language: Japanese
Starring: Hideaki Nitani, Izumi Ashikawa, Toshio Takahara, Yōko Minamida, Yuji Odaka
Synopsis:“Samurai movies often operate similarly to westerns (part of why SEVEN SAMURAI and YOJIMBO were later remade Stateside),...
Film Geeks San Diego: The Long Riders
- Sun, Jul 5
Director: Walter Hill Run Time: 99 min. Release Year: 1980
Starring: David Carradine, James Keach, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, Stacy Keach
"All the world likes an outlaw. For some damn reason they remember 'em." - Jesse James
Film Geeks San Diego: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Sun, Aug 16
Director: John Huston Run Time: 126 min. Release Year: 1948
Starring: Barton MacLane, Bruce Bennett, Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt, Walter Huston
The nearer they get to their treasure, the farther they get from the law.
Film Geeks San Diego: Four of the Apocalypse
- Sun, Sep 13
Director: Lucio Fulci Run Time: 104 min. Release Year: 1975 Language: Italian
Starring: Fabio Testi, Harry Baird, Lynne Frederick, Michael J. Pollard, Tomas Milian
Synopsis: One of Italian genre filmmaking legend Lucio Fulci’s (ZOMBIE, THE BEYOND) few excursions into the Spaghetti Western...
Film Geeks San Diego: Bone Tomahawk
- Sun, Oct 11
Director: S. Craig Zahler Run Time: 133 min. Release Year: 2015
Starring: Kurt Russell, Lili Simmons, Matthew Fox, Patrick Wilson, Richard Jenkins
Death comes for all men.
Film Geeks San Diego: The Proposition
- Sun, Nov 22
Director: John Hillcoat Run Time: 104 min. Release Year: 2005
Starring: Danny Huston, David Wenham, Emily Watson, Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone
This land will be civilized.
Film Geeks San Diego: Ride the High Country
- Sun, Dec 6
Director: Sam Peckinpah Run Time: 94 min. Release Year: 1962
Starring: Edgar Buchanan, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley, Randolph Scott, Ron Starr
Showdown in the High Sierra!