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.

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.

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.

As a global crisis escalates and Korean soldiers are sent overseas, a young man in Seoul counts down the hours to his impending military service, reflecting on identity, duty, and the choices that shape us. Before the Call is a very specific kind of film. It’s minimalist, experimental, semi–slow cinema, and it’s not trying to follow any traditional dramatic architecture whatsoever. It’s built around one character and the internal state he’s moving through right before he chooses to do something that hardly makes sense on paper: he goes back home to Seoul, even though he’s a Korean American who’s exempt from service, and he decides to enlist and be deployed to a war that doesn’t even belong to him. The film drifts between the present day — him arriving home, reconnecting with his father, seeing his ex-girlfriend Minji, hanging out with his friend — and the letters he later sends to Minji from the war. These letters are essentially the spine of the film. They’re poetic, questioning, introspective in a way that never feels like a lecture, never feels like he’s justifying himself. They’re more like somebody thinking out loud about identity, duty, guilt, masculinity, belonging, the question of “whose war is this,” and what it means to take a step that might cost you everything. - Lucy Hanna, SF IndieFest

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. What initially feels like a messy, comedic errand quickly mutates into something far stranger. The search for Ryan pulls Ford and Mae through a series of unexpected environments —abandoned interiors, theaters, deserts, forests, isolated spaces—each location feeling singular, deliberately chosen, and never overexposed. Along the way, the film introduces parallel threads and satirical interruptions that suggests that something larger is at play than a simple missing-person story. The search slowly shifts from where is he? to why did he do this?—and what kind of world did he intentionally step into? - Lucy Hahn, SF IndieFest

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.

A modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet" told entirely through the lyrics of the Wu-Tang Clan.

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.

Goody follows twenty-year old Guelia Pedat, raised Catholic by her overbearing mother and unknowingly suffering from OCD that manifests through an irrational adherence to religious rituals. After losing her faith and years after the death of her beloved older brother she still blames herself despite a lack of involvement. Throughout this Southern Gothic Coming of Age story, Goody connects to childhood friends and navigates new relationships as she spirals to new lows and must find a way to free herself from grief.

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. When their neighbor visits, their bravado collapses into confusion and self-sabotage, exposing the deep insecurities behind their arrogance. Through a series of encounters — from awkward flirtations to drunken fights and a symbolic meeting with an older man named Rogelio, who mirrors what they may become — the film dissects male fragility with unflinching realism. By the time dawn arrives, the friends are left confronting the emptiness within their own behavior, culminating in a scene that suggests the first faint sign of self-awareness. - Lucy Hanna, SF IndieFest

In this light-and-dark comedy, June and her Persian mom Lela travel to a romantic Azorean island one year after their major loss — with opposite ideas about why they’re there, how to grieve, and June’s tiny bikini. Between happy honeymooners, Woman Life Freedom, and a charming surfer, they (and we, the audience) surf the waves of life, loss, flirting... an unforgettable ride.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Three friends head into the wilderness to reconnect. When one vanishes, the journey becomes a test of friendship, trust, and what it means to truly be there for one another.

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.

Santacon: a dreaded day in which tens of thousands of drunk idiots dress like Santa and invade countless cities around the world to live out their drunkest and most violent instincts. But it began as something else entirely: A piece of Dada street theater designed to shock people out of their everyday existence by creating a sense of awe and confusion.

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.

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.

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.

Tom has marked March 9th as the annual day when she attempts to end her life—an agreement she made with herself two years ago when she decided her life would never get better. This year’s plan is carbon monoxide poisoning inside her car at a remote desert spot.

From Blockbuster dreams to streaming screens, a filmmaker’s journey through a vanishing world. Follow a director’s thirty-year odyssey to get on the shelf of Blockbuster Video and beyond. A tale of struggle, perseverance, and what to do when your dreams no longer make sense. This multiple award-winning film features Lloyd Kaufman (creator of The Toxic Avenger), Debbie Rochon, Joe Bob Briggs, and many others. From Tom Seymour, creator of VHS Massacre 1 & 2 and American Expendables.