2022 AWARD WINNER SPEECHES + INTROS

Filmmaker Pelin Esmer accepts the SDFF 2021 Jury Award for Best Feature for Queen Lear, in which a theater group comprised of peasant women take their performance of King Lear on the road in rural Turkey.

OUTwatch Film Festival is presenting a film series starting with Jump, Darling! (Phil Connell, 2020) this Thursday at 7 p.m. at Rialto Cinemas®. The festival...

12 APRIL 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. The Silent Shore (Nathalie Giraud and Timothée Corteggiani, 2021) won the Jury Award for Best Short at...

Filmmaker Pelin Esmer accepts the SDFF 2021 Jury Award for Best Feature for Queen Lear, in which a theater group comprised of peasant women take their performance of King Lear on the road in rural Turkey.

Filmmaker Pelin Esmer accepts the SDFF 2021 Jury Award for Best Feature for Queen Lear, in which a theater group comprised of peasant women take their performance of King Lear on the road in rural Turkey.

SDFF, Trim Tab Media and Rialto Cinemas® collaborative Doc Night series will continue on April 11 at Sebastopol’s Rialto Cinemas® with a screening and discussion...

The SDFF 2021 film, When We Were Bullies (Jay Rosenblatt, 2021), and two other short films from SDFF alumni filmmakers Ben Proudfoot’s The Queen Of Basketball (2021)...

8 FEBRUARY 2022 NEW FILMS & PROJECTS FROM SDFF FILMMAKERS Marian Anderson: The Whole World In Her Hands premieres tonight (2/8) on PBS American. The film,...

1 FEBRUARY 2022 DOCS IN THE NEWS Investigative journalism outlet Bellingcat made its second major documentary appearance in the upcoming film Navalny (Daniel Roher, 2022), which went home with...

18 JANUARY 2022 DOCS IN THE NEWS An IndieWire column hit close to home for SDFF this week, pointing to the impact the pandemic has...