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Welcome to the San Francisco IndieFest 2026 Virtual Festival!
Explore our on-demand catalog here. Film programs are available Feb 5-15, 2026. All programs include recorded Q&A interviews with the filmmakers.
Feature Films
Made over 15 years, Adulthood is a feature composed of six short films, each chapter following Amy Seimetz and David Nordstrom as they grow older without necessarily growing up.
106 min | United States
Thu Feb 5th
Adulthood
In the weeks leading to Allie moving across the country, her best friend (and bandmate) Jacob considers life without her in this intimate story of leaving and feeling left.
United States
Thu Feb 5th
All My Friends
How do you make a portrait of a music group when nobody knows who the members are? Marie Losier takes up the task and travels to San Francisco to create a documentary on cult band The Residents. There, we meet Homer Flynn, president of The Cryptic Corporation, who guides us through The Residents’ archive, sharing a variety of anecdotes related to the objects it contains. Complementing his stories with archival footage and a historical context, Losier delivers a compassionate portrait and a celebration of creativity.
42 min | | United States
Thu Feb 5th
Barking in the Dark & C.R.E.A.M
Thu Feb 5th
Before the Call
Ryan is missing. Ford (his struggling actor roommate) and Mae (the drifter he slept with last night) turn amateur detective to solve the caper but find themselves in a dangerous web of rogues who are searching for him as well.
United States
Thu Feb 5th
Buffalo Buffalo Turquoise Buffalo
After getting busted for defrauding her investors, tech girlboss entrepreneur Andy is heading to her family's abandoned lakeside cottage for one last weekend before she kills herself.
Canada
Thu Feb 5th
Byeeee
A modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet" told entirely through the lyrics of the Wu-Tang Clan.
42 min | | United States
Thu Feb 5th
C.R.E.A.M & Barking in the Dark
In March 2020, an Argentine woman flees New York with her Peruvian husband for his family's empty beach house outside of Lima, whereupon an unplanned pregnancy precipitates the destruction of her marriage. In the present, she rips the moments of this narrative from their context, and reconstructs her story to reckon with her profound feeling of loneliness and the experience of time in which it has trapped her.
86 min | United States, Peru, Argentina
Thu Feb 5th
Difference & Repetition, 2020
Thu Feb 5th
Goody
Alejandro Castro Arias’s debut feature from Spain follows three friends adrift in a haze of frustration, immaturity, and toxic masculinity over the course of a single night in Madrid. Obsessed with sex yet incapable of genuine connection, they circle around the same destructive patterns — lying, cheating, posturing, and failing to communicate with women or with each other.
Spain
Thu Feb 5th
Harakiri, I Miss You
Honeyjoon is for anyone who lives with loss. For anyone who wants to feel free. For anyone who has tried, and failed, to flirt.
United States, Portugal
Thu Feb 5th
Honeyjoon
A single mom stealing packages off of your porch. A young couple arguing about money and children. A pizza delivery driver folding boxes at night in the back of the store. 'I'm a Stranger Here Myself' weaves together a mosaic of disconnected narratives to create a quiet portrait of contemporary Los Angeles.
United States
Thu Feb 5th
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Valencia, 1939 – a Francoist lieutenant interrogates Esperanza, a museum curator protecting Prado masterpieces during Spain’s civil-war collapse. A fascist colonel covets one painting—The Invasion of the Barbarians—as a personal trophy. Eighty years later, her granddaughter Aurora fights bureaucracy and official silence to exhume Esperanza’s remains and give her a proper burial. Two intertwined timelines reveal how fascism, corruption, and the complicity of the Church scarred generations, and how one woman’s moral resistance becomes a legacy of defiance.
118 min | Spain
Thu Feb 5th
The Invasion of the Barbarians
Dennis Peron is San Francisco's biggest pot dealer. But when the AIDS epidemic sweeps through his community, Peron realizes that marijuana is more than a good time—it’s medicine. In the wake of his lover’s death, Peron opens the Cannabis Buyers’ Club, a five-story dispensary complete with rainbow murals, drag shows, and doctors onsite.
88 min | United States
Thu Feb 5th
Join the Club
The female metal band ‘JUMP SCARE’ retreat to a remote cabin to write their next album only to be terrorized by the family of cannibals next door.
99 min | United States
Thu Feb 5th
Jump Scare
An acting professor has her life upended when her charming but volatile baby brother joins her acting class, setting off a battle of wills between them for the hearts and minds of her eager students that could bring them all to the brink of success or debilitating ruin.
102 min | United States
Thu Feb 5th
Leads
Told through the darkly comedic lens of a teenager who’s never been in a forest, this ecological spin of a classic coming of age tale, shot on 16mm and (partially) hand processed with plants, unfolds in both ancient forests and cities. Produced by the activist collective Purpose Repair Shop, authored by environmental educator Pavli Serenetsky, and starring cult-beloved musicians, it blends humor, self-discovery, and environmental/queer awakening into a fresh narrative art form.
69 min | United States
Thu Feb 5th
More Beautiful Perversions
Thu Feb 5th
The Only Way Out Is Through
After a life altering accident, Ryan struggles to fit in with old friends and family at a birthday luau on his family’s homestead. As the pig slowly roasts in an imu pit and the partygoers cut loose, the celebration boils over when Ryan uncovers the missing memory of when his life took a tragic turn.
77 min | United States
Thu Feb 5th
Reeling
Thu Feb 5th
Santacon
Still Life is set in the Bay Area in 1999, and centers on Dafne, a teenage ballet student whose mother is battling leukemia. Over the course of several months, Dafne juggles school, dance rehearsals, a nascent romance and the everyday rhythms of youth — all while living with the underlying fear and grief that her mother’s illness casts over everything.
United States
Thu Feb 5th
Still Life
This Will Never Work is about a Black family coming together to have an intervention for Amanda's drinking problem. They've hired a therapist named Trevor (a white man, not that it matters), written emotional letters, and now they sit and wait for Amanda to arrive. But when she does, Trevor realizes that the family hasn't exactly been honest with him. "I think I should leave," he says. But listening isn't this family's strong suit, and they've already prepared for battle. The intervention turns into a whodunnit of all the family's drama and trauma.
91 min | United States
Thu Feb 5th
This Will Never Work
A serious look into the absurd world of "Tight and Nerdy," the first (and only) burlesque troupe devoted to the music of "Weird Al" Yankovic. This hilarious, heartfelt documentary celebrates the unique friendship of four women as they bare it all to food-based song parodies.
81 min | United States
Thu Feb 5th
Tight & Nerdy
Shorts Programs
Comedy Shorts
Thu Feb 5th
DIY Funnies
Thu Feb 5th
Documentary Shorts
Thu Feb 5th
Drama Shorts
Thu Feb 5th
Genre Shorts
Thu Feb 5th
Heart & Grit
Thu Feb 5th