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Film events in and around San Francisco this weekend

82 events this weekend (Nov 6–8) in and around San Francisco, 11 of them free. Each links to its original listing. Updated November 6.

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Friday, November 6

4 PM Film Screening: Mean Streets BAMPFA
4 PM Friday Movie Night: Hoppers • Portola Family Connections Centers • Portola Free
4:30 PM Godzilla Minus Zero Balboa Theater
5 PM An Exclusive Burning Man Film Screening & Conversation with Award-Winning social entrepreneur Sophia Swire Shack15 Free
5 PM Bitter Christmas Sebastiani Theatre
6 PM Improv Date Night - Workshop for Couples and Friends Endgames Improv Training Center - South $60
6 PM In Other Words: 2026 SF Dance Film Festival Brava Theater Center See tickets
6 PM Movies at Mechanics' Presents Forbidden (1932) Mechanics' Institute $7.18-$12.51
6 PM New People: Being Heumann NEW PEOPLE CINEMA
6 PM ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM Roxie
6 PM World Deaf & Disabled Dance Film Festival 2026 YBCA Galleries and Forum Building $28.52
6:20 PM Fatherland Roxie
7 PM Film Screening: Harakiri BAMPFA
7 PM Floating Features: Pacific Heights Roxie
7 PM Make Better Choices Endgames Improv Theater $17.35
7 PM You Can See Everything Balboa Theater
7:30 PM DOUBLE FEATURE + LIVE Q&A WITH SANDOW BIRK Balboa Theater
7:30 PM Film Night: The Charlie O'Leary Story United Irish Cultural Center $12.51
7:30 PM In Smog and Thunder and Dante's Inferno Balboa Theater
7:30 PM Studio 8 Film Festival 2026: Where to? (Juror Night) 4 Star Theater, 2200 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA… $10
7:30 PM Unhealthy Criminal Obsession Endgames Training Center $17.35
8 PM Paper Tiger Sebastiani Theatre
8:40 PM NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND New People Cinema

Saturday, November 7

9 AM 'FILM IN A DAY!' Actors, Writers & Directors Short Film Challenge PLEASANT HILL LOCATION- Given to Fully Registered Participants ONLY $0-$321.96
11 AM Iron Boy Sebastiani Theatre
11:30 AM World Deaf & Disabled Dance Film Festival 2026 YBCA Galleries and Forum Building $28.52-$87.21
12 PM Body Language – Screendance Shorts: 2026 SF Dance Film Festival Brava Theater Center See tickets
1 PM Family Affair Movie Matinee Rafiki Coalition
1 PM Las Almas ni los Ojos (Neither Souls nor Eyes) Roxie
1 PM No Country for Mothers Film Screening Benicia Public Library Free
1 PM Two Films. One Manilatown Legacy Phyllis Wattis Theater @ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Free
1:30 PM Godzilla Minus Zero Balboa Theater
1:30 PM Rehearsals for a Revolution Sebastiani Theatre
2 PM Studio 8 Film Festival 2026: Personal Visions (Juried Show) 4 Star Theater, 2200 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA… $10
2:30 PM Film Screening: Kwaidan BAMPFA
2:30 PM New People: My Undesirable Friends: Part 2 – Exile (Chapters 4-5) NEW PEOPLE CINEMA
3 PM CV Field Trip: The Dalai Lama: My Religion Is Kindness Film Screening + Director Q&A Roxie Theater Free
3 PM You Can See Everything Balboa Theater
3:05 PM Once Upon a Time in Harlem Roxie
4 PM Improv Date Night - Workshop for Couples and Friends Endgames Improv Training Center - South $60
5 PM Ink Sebastiani Theatre
5 PM Polite Society Endgames Improv $12.16
6 PM Fatherland Roxie
6 PM The SBM Film Festival 2026 Village Theatre & Art Gallery $20-$25
6 PM These Violent Delights: 2026 SF Dance Film Festival Brava Theater Center See tickets
6:20 PM New People: Being Heumann NEW PEOPLE CINEMA
6:30 PM Film Screening: The Sword BAMPFA
6:30 PM Rooted in Gratitude: A Farewell Screening Revival Hall $7.18-$33.85
7 PM California Trips: Bay Area Internet Archive
7 PM Phasers on Stun: Junction of the Stars Endgames Improv $17.35
7:30 PM Unhealthy Criminal Obsession Endgames Training Center $17.35
8 PM Elsinore Sebastiani Theatre
8:30 PM Spotlight Shorts: 2026 SF Dance Film Festival Brava Theater Center See tickets
11 PM The Room Balboa Theater

Sunday, November 8

8 AM Documenting Democracy Ninth Street Independent Film Center Free
10 AM Nuisance Bear Sebastiani Theatre
11 AM The Sea: 2026 SF Dance Film Festival Brava Theater Center See tickets
11 AM Wide Screen Road Show, hosted by Film Critic, Matías Bombal (Second Sunday each month) Orinda Theatre
12 PM Blankets & Blockbusters: Toy Story 5 Thrive City Free
12:15 PM Bedford Park Sebastiani Theatre
12:30 PM Studio 8 Film Festival 2026: Babeth Mondini VanLoo (Studio 8 Legacy Award) Roxie Theater $15-$30
1 PM Godzilla Minus Zero Balboa Theater
1 PM New People: Being Heumann NEW PEOPLE CINEMA
1:20 PM Los Conductos Roxie
1:30 PM Film Screening of "Wood Street" St. Mary's Center Free
1:30 PM Leap! (Family-Friendly Movie) Brava Theater Center Free
2:30 PM You Can See Everything Balboa Theater
3 PM From Baroque to Cinema Community Music Center Free
3 PM Josephine Sebastiani Theatre
3:10 PM EVERYTHING FOR SALE Roxie
3:10 PM How to Clean a House in 10 Easy Steps Roxie
4 PM Be in a MOVIE SCENE! Seeking volunteer actors for a feature film scene. Church Free
4:30 PM Make Work: 2026 SF Dance Film Festival Brava Theater Center See tickets
4:45 PM NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND New People Cinema
5 PM THE BIG WHOOP Film Screening Small Theater $12.51-$17.85
5 PM The Big Whoop | 2025 The 418 Project
5:30 PM Once Upon a Time in Harlem Roxie
6:30 PM Film Screening: Contempt BAMPFA
7 PM All of a Sudden Sebastiani Theatre
7:30 PM Bay Area Shorts: 2026 SF Dance Film Festival Brava Theater Center See tickets
7:35 PM The History of Concrete Roxie
7:40 PM Fatherland Roxie

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