San Francisco Independent Film Featival, Feb. 6-18, 2025

[Chris Knipp]

San Francisco Independent Film Featival, Feb. 6-18, 2025

"SF IndieFest is the one festival of the year where you should throw a dart at the program and take a chance. Not because you’re guaranteed a masterpiece, but because it’s the best fest to see something that would never, ever breach your filter otherwise." -Michael Fox, KQED

AMONG NEIGHBORS (Yoav Potash 2024)
[IMDb:] Seven decades after the end of World War II, award-winning filmmaker Yoav Potash uncovers the lost Jewish history of a small Polish town by the name of Gniewoszów. For hundreds of years, Poles and Jews peacefully coexisted in this little-known enclave. Today, this sleepy farm town has not a single Jewish resident, and even the Jewish tombstones are gone, having been stolen from the cemetery to be used by locals as grindstones and building materials. . . (Documentary)

ENCRYPTED (Miyoni Nelson 2024)
[Imdb:] We follow a young woman named Gia, as she pushes her way through a brand new journey of self-discovery when she is placed in therapy and is forced to face her inner child for the first time. Her world takes an unexpected turn when she suffers loss, and her mother, whom she has difficult relationship with, insists on help from a professional to address her underlying issues. Across 3 sessions in this purgatory-like office, Gia opens the door of her daunting past, reluctantly peeling back layers of her guarded self.

FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS (Javier Horcajada Fontecha 2024)
[IMDb:]Guns, explosions, musical numbers, zombies, tanks and Youtube. Thousands of hours of Youtube videos turned into a bizarre cocktail to show us the most extreme, wild and crazy gun-loving Americans. But what if they are just ordinary Americans?

INFIITE SUMMER (Miguel Llansó 2024)
[IMDB] Three young women's week at the beach turns into a transhumanist mystery romp in one Estonian summer.

KCSM 91.1 THE BAY AREA’S JAZZ STATION TO THE WORLD
KCSM Jazz 91 - A Documentary Film Celebrating 60 Years of Broadcasting and Jazz

THE KARAMAZOVS (Anna Brenner 2024)
[IMDB] The estranged Karamazov siblings return home to see their dying father and settle a financial dispute, but nothing goes as planned and they find themselves in the middle of a murder case and questioning everything they have inherited.

THE LEGEND OF THE VAGABOND QUEEN OF LAGOS (The Agbojowo Collective 2024)
A young mother from a waterfront slum in Lagos stumbles upon a horde of corrupt blood money.

THE PAPER BAG PLAN (Anthony Lucero 2024)
Oscar has dedicated his life to the well-being of his disabled son, Billy. When Oscar is diagnosed with cancer, he forges a plan to train his son the intricacies of bagging groceries in the hopes of landing Billy his first job and beginning a life of independence.

TIMESTALKER (Alice Lowe 2024)
[Eye for Film] f you’re interested in the idea of toxic relationship cycles that repeat themselves but thought Betrand Bonello’s The Beast rather lumbering and arthouse, then you might find Alice Lowe’s Timestalker hits the spot. In it she tackles the same topic with considerably more comedic snap and crackle not to mention a fair amount of electropop.

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