Terry Zwigoff IN PERSON: Q&A and Signing. Terry Zwigoff returns to The Roxie with a double-feature that includes a film he and his neighborhood cinema have been heckling, cajoling, even daring one another for decades to get up on screen in the Mission District; his 1st cinematic effort, the 1985 Louie Bluie; a wry, ribald, […]
Join us for the 2025 BAVC MediaMaker Pitch and Party! We will be bringing together filmmakers, alumni, industry, and BAVC community members for an exclusive preview of 6 outstanding documentaries in progress. →Meet the 2025 MediaMaker Fellows! For those who can join us in person, a party will follow at Dalva (next door!). Wednesday, December […]
Co-presented with Litquake, San Francisco’s literary festival (October 9-25). For the last ZYZZYVA Movie Night of the year, Ingrid Rojas Contreras presents a special screening of Aventurera (Adventuress), widely considered the greatest film in Mexico’s singular rumbera genre, introduced by award-winning author Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket). Aventurera is a pitch-black film noir punctuated by […]
Co-presented with Litquake, San Francisco’s literary festival (October 9-25). For its special Litquake installment, ZYZZYVA Movie Night with Ingrid Rojas Contreras offers a critically acclaimed 2018 film about Oakland, which will be introduced by featured guest Robert Samuels, co-author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning book His Name Is George Floyd (which was also a finalist for […]
20 FREE TICKETS available to Mission Local readers. Come early to box office and claim yours. About the film “No Place to Grow Old” is an intimate portrait of the rising crisis of older adults facing homelessness. The film explores the deeply personal stories and root causes of a generation aging without access to secure […]
San Francisco faces a devastating homeless crisis. Moved to act, Dr. Eduardo Dolhun, a family physician, chronicles the stories of his homeless neighbors in the Tenderloin and other areas of San Francisco. FOG, a stunningly fresh short documentary (14 minutes), is nothing short of inspirational. This film showing is part of “Hope Lives Here: The […]
The underground San Francisco cult sensation is back—and on the big screen! Drugs in the Tenderloin (1967) Wednesday, August 20, 2025 | 7:00 PM At the Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St, SF, CA 94103 Q&A to follow with director Robert Zagone and special guests Co-presented by the Tenderloin Museum and the Roxie Theater Runtime: 52 […]
A fundraiser screening for the Women’s Building that will feature a Q&A panel with director Shabnam Piryaei and film participants/asylum seekers Irma Gallegos Chavez, Belvi Mikery, Juan Enriquez. “There’s a saying in Mexico, they call it pueblo chico, infierno grande—small town big hell…I was an easy target.” – Juan, an LGBTQ asylee from Mexico. Waves […]
The award-winning noir feature from Producers Louis F. Dematteis and Dante Betteo, Directed by Dante Betteo Producer/Director Dante Betteo,Producer Louis Dematteis, actors Richard Montoya, Veronica Valencia and Alejandro Murguia will be in person for a Q&A! The City is changing…neighborhood-by-neighborhood, block-by-block, bar-by-bar — change with it or fight fire with fire. As if ripped from […]
David Cronenberg in attendance for our preview screening on April 21! In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from […]
David Cronenberg in attendance for our preview screening on April 21! In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from […]
From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away, and Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, comes an epic masterpiece that has dazzled audiences worldwide with its breathtaking imagination, exhilarating battles, and deep humanity. Inflicted with a deadly curse, the young warrior Ashitaka heads west in search of a cure. There, he stumbles into a bitter […]
