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San Francisco International Film Festival — A–Z of films

2026

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  • Beasts Of The Southern Wild
    Review preview for Beasts Of The Southern Wild

    There's poetry, tough love and, above all, a fierce stoicism on the bayou in Benh Zeitlin's strikingly beautiful and haunting debut.

    Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
    Waters gonna rise up, wild animals gonna return from the grave, and everything south of the levee is goin’ under, in this tale of a six-year-old named Hushpuppy, who lives with her daddy at the edge of the world.
  • Beau Travail
    An officer recalls his life in the Foreign Legion.

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  • Ghost School
    Review preview for Ghost School

    Arsalan really does have something special.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Rabia, a ten-year-old Pakistani girl, sets out to find why her only school in the village is closed.

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  • Inside Amir
    Review preview for Inside Amir

    It may be episodic but its themes are so well connected that it never feels disjointed.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Drama revolving around the life of a young man on the verge of emigrating from Tehran to southern Italy.
  • The Invite
    Review preview for The Invite

    Wilde's direction is assured, there's some gorgeous framing and frequent Rogen collaborator Adam Newport-Berra's camera makes the most of what's in front of it.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    Joe and Angela are on thin ice, and tonight might be when it all falls apart. Unfortunately, their upstairs neighbours are about to arrive for dinner, and everything that can go wrong goes worse.
  • Jaripeo
    Review preview for Jaripeo

    The documentary is attentive to contradiction without flattening its subjects into symbols.

    Edin Custo · 3.5 out of 5
    A journey to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.
  • Late Fame
    Review preview for Late Fame

    Burch and Jones clearly enjoy updating rich kid Myers and his literary salon pals to the present without ever falling into clownish cliché.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, works in the post office. After an eager and flattering young admirer appears on his doorstep, Saxberger is beckoned into a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius.
  • The Lunchbox
    Review preview for The Lunchbox

    Sheer unadulterated pleasure often comes from the most unexpected quarters.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    A mistakenly delivered lunchbox sparks romance between two lonely people.

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  • Nuisance Bear
    Review preview for Nuisance Bear

    By viewing the situation, at least initially, mostly from the perspective of the bears, the directors ask us to consider who exactly is trespassing on whose turf.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A polar bear is forced to navigate a human world of tourists, wildlife officers, and hunters as its ancient migration collides with modern life. When a sacred predator is branded a nuisance, it becomes unclear who truly belongs in this shared landscape.

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  • Space Cadet
    Review preview for Space Cadet

    A film that gently tackles adult themes including grief, being an empty nester and memory but in ways that make it accessible to all ages.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Robot’s sole purpose has always been to nurture Celeste into the brilliant scientist she has now become. But as the young astronaut sets off on her first interstellar mission, Robot is left behind.