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Welcome to the San Francisco IndieFest 2025 Virtual Festival!
Explore our on-demand catalog here. Film programs are available Feb 6-18, 2024.
Feature Films
The thirty-five-year-olds Alda, Pier, Giamma, and Rachel have been friends forever. They have big ideals, but they live as precarious individuals in a society that often disappoints them. On Alda's birthday evening, they will decide to make a bold move in life, giving a slap to life itself, and embarking on the most incredible, ambitious, revolutionary, and perhaps impossible venture of all.
Thu Feb 6th
The 4 of Us & Apology
Nida Chowdhry directs, writes, and stars in her debut feature film ANXIOUS., a surreal dark comedy about a woman named Ruby who has an anxiety attack and trips down the rabbit hole of her mind, where she meets versions of herself who take over her life. Inspired by the surrealism of Eternal Sunshine, quirky characters of Amelie, and the whirlwind journey of Alice in Wonderland, this fast-paced fashion film is set against the colorful backdrops of Little Saigon and Little India in Orange County, California.
United States
Thu Feb 6th
Anxious.
A new wife loses her pregnancy, then her privacy, after moving to a suburb run by a strangely ritualistic mothers’ group.
Thu Feb 6th
Baby Fever & To The Moon
In order to escape her overprotective drug-dealing stepfather, a young introvert flees to NYC with her pet pocket squirrel. After successfully reinventing herself, she realizes she must confront her dark past, to truly be free. BOUND’s innovative structure sets it apart from most indie films. The first half is a social drama focused on Bella’s escape, survival, and building a new life from scratch.At the midpoint it flips to a domestic thriller when Bella returns home to save the mother that betrayed her. The result is a surprising tonal shift that works by being rooted in the domestic situation Bella escaped from.
United States
Thu Feb 6th
Bound
It's the 1800's and the first white settlers have set out for the Pacific coast. They're seeking freedom, peace and a new life in the Promised Land. Most will never make it. Instead, they will die of starvation in the cruel and foreign deserts. We follow one of those families as they try and overcome the long odds of survival in this strange new environment. As grief, hunger and desperation begin to tear the Youngman family apart, they find salvation in the most unlikely place.... a smart phone.
United States
Thu Feb 6th
Britney Lost Her Phone
Raised in an oppressive cult, a reclusive schizophrenic discovers that he's being framed by cult leaders for a series of ritualistic murders. As he uncovers a web of systemic abuse, he begins to unravel the secrets of his own identity and the source of his insanity.
United Kingdom, Austria
Thu Feb 6th
Dirty Boy
We follow Gia, a young woman with too much weight on her shoulders, as she scathes her way through a brand new journey of self-discovery, which forces her to face her inner child for the first time. The story primarily highlights the importance of treating mental health, specifically in Black households. More importantly, it warns its audiences of the potential effects that follow negligence of the self and lovelessness. The story threads a needle through every life that has been altered—or taken—as a result of untreated and/or undiscovered mental health illnesses.
Thu Feb 6th
Encrypted & Suburban Story
Guns, explosions, musical numbers, zombies, tanks and Youtube. Thousands of hours of Youtube videos turned into a crazy cocktail to show us the most extreme, wild and crazy gun lovers in the United States. Or, I don't know, maybe they are just normal, ordinary Americans. Totally normal.
Thu Feb 6th
From My Cold Dead Hands & Butts
On a summer break, Mia and her friends try a meditation app that delivers a mind-bending experience. Police investigation reveals darker forces behind it. When one of the girls ends up in a hospital and the other one escapes, Mia is grappling with the choice to save them or join them.
Estonia
Thu Feb 6th
Infinite Summer
Thu Feb 6th
The Karamazovs & Shrapnel
As America’s only original art form, the cultural relevance of jazz is at risk of being forgotten – if not for the dedicated announcers at KCSM Jazz 91.1.
Thu Feb 6th
KCSM 91.1 The Bay Area's Jazz Station to the World & Town Square
Jawu, a young mother from a waterfront slum in Lagos, stumbles upon a horde of corrupt blood money marked for a real estate development that threatens her home. Overcoming isolation and temptation, she must stand as a unifying force in a community that stands to lose everything.
Nigeria
Thu Feb 6th
The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos
When drag queens start disappearing, a shy young barista must summon his inner super-shero to rescue them from an ambitious evil drag queen bent on harvesting their magical anti-aging tears.
United States
Thu Feb 6th
Maxxie LaWow: Drag Super-shero
A man with an extraordinary but failing memory tries to solve the mystery of what happened to a woman killed by a hit-and-run driver.
United States
Thu Feb 6th
Memorizing Alison
Oscar has dedicated his life to the well-being of his disabled son, Billy. But Oscar is not only a devoted father, he is also a high functioning alcoholic. The thought of “who will care for my son once I die” has now come face to face with him with his recent colon cancer diagnosis. After scrambling unsuccessfully to find some kind of job placement for Billy, he notices a help wanted sign at a nearby grocery store. With their remaining precious time together, Oscar forges ahead to teach his son the skills needed to work as a bagger in the hopes of landing Billy his first job and beginning a life of independence.
United States
Thu Feb 6th
The Paper Bag Plan
Germany, shortly before elections – a mysterious disease outbreak afflicting only men strikes. Differences between the sexes long believed to have been overcome re-emerge, shaking society to its core.
Germany
Thu Feb 6th
Protected Men
The Queen of the Ring tells the remarkable true story of Mildred Burke, the first million-dollar female athlete in world history and the longest reigning champion of female wrestling. Based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeff Leen, the film follows ‘Millie,’ a young single mother from a small town who defies societal norms by becoming a female pro-wrestler at a time when the sport was illegal across most of the United States.
United States
Thu Feb 6th
The Queen of the Ring
Alter, in her 40s, suffers from a profound ailment that is eating her inside out. After attempting suicide, she is consulting her therapist Léandro Lecreulx, a specialist in hypnosis, who connects her to her most buried terrifying fears. Léandro is developing unique methods to help his patients deal with their childhood trauma. The days pass to the rhythm of nightmares and hypnosis sessions. Alter goes back further and further into her past, until the devastating moment that changed everything. Her life is turned upside down as she discovers that her loving and protective mother has always hidden a secret from her.
Réunion, France
Thu Feb 6th
Scarlet Blue
In September of 2001, Chloe, a college senior at a school in lower Manhattan, tests positive for HIV. Over the weeks that follow, she struggles to deal with her diagnosis, past trauma, and an uncertain future. As her estranged stepfather Doug attempts to reconnect and classmate Trevor shyly tries to gain her affection, Chloe pulls further away until making a terrifying discovery about one of her classmates.
United States
Thu Feb 6th
Sideways for Attention
After finding out he is going deaf, Bruce is stuck at a crossroads: he needs a surgical intervention that he can’t afford. In his attempt to find a solution that will get him the money, he meets Ethan, a lonely man who needs above all someone to talk to. The unlikely pair will embark on a journey of no return, where Ethan can’t stop talking to Bruce, who is unable to hear.
Thu Feb 6th
Silent Notes & Nocturnals Anonymous
A disillusioned office worker finds freedom and a new sense of self after assuming her missing colleague’s identity on a dating app, only to find it comes at the cost of much more.
Japan
Thu Feb 6th
Strangers
Agnes, a hapless heroine, falls for a mysterious man, promptly meets her bloody demise, and then is reincarnated a century later. When she meets her love again, the cycle begins anew. As Agnes traverses through time, she repeats all the messy thrills and spills that come with daring to follow one’s heart. How can she ever hope to break the cycle when she’s destined to be a fool for love?
89 min | United Kingdom
Thu Feb 6th
Timestalker
When meteor storms bring a new life form to earth, global authorities implement emergency controls as they move in secret to eliminate the predators. A group of friends risk everything to survive as they come face to face with the monster.
Australia, China, Hong Kong, South Africa, Thailand, United Kingdom
Thu Feb 6th
Touchdown
A colorful adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 erotic thriller, in which a woman tells her husband that she has fantasies with other people, triggering his desire for his own adventures. Set in modern kinky Berlin, the film is much more than a mere reboot of Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut".
Germany
Thu Feb 6th
Traumnovelle
From the depths of space, Dracula has devised his most dastardly plan yet; turning the residents of a small American town into his personal army of vampire zombies! A motley crew consisting of a grizzled detective, a skeptical rookie cop, a chain-smoking greaser, and a determined young woman band together to save the world from — (see title). Packed with gruesome special effects, b-movie miniatures, and gut-busting laughs, "Vampire Zombies…from Space!" is a bloody comedy that has its foundation in horror films of the 1950s.
Canada
Thu Feb 6th
Vampire Zombies...from Space!
Shorts Programs
Bay Area Documentary Shorts
Thu Feb 6th
Bay Area Tales pt 1
Thu Feb 6th
Bay Area Tales pt 2
Thu Feb 6th
Documentary Shorts
Thu Feb 6th
Drama Shorts
Thu Feb 6th
Four Stories
Thu Feb 6th
Genre Shorts
Thu Feb 6th
Local Focus Shorts
Thu Feb 6th
Love Bites
Thu Feb 6th
True Stories
Thu Feb 6th