Welcome to the 65th San Francisco International Film Festival!
While the past two years have been filled with wonderful films that helped us cope with
being apart, we have missed the magical experience of being in movie theaters with
you. As we invite you back into theaters across the city and East Bay, this year’s SFFILM
Festival aims to reignite the wonder and delight that watching visually compelling,
intellectually stimulating, and wildly imaginative films bring to audiences in person.
We ask you to bring your discerning eye and curiosity to this year’s lineup. The 2022
program has been curated with intention and care by a team of film lovers—aka
our programmers—whose passion for cinematic storytelling invites us to see and feel
the world around us in new ways. In the midst of the global community of voices
and work, we hope you will discover and champion new works from our homegrown
Bay Area filmmakers.
Since 1957, SFFILM has connected the people of the Bay Area to the world through
cinema. Our belief in this intrinsic power of film, as well as its ability to bring us closer
with each other and our own humanity, fuels our year-round work beyond the Festival.
With our new hub in SoMa, we bring together our staff and signature residency FilmHouse
under one roof for the first time. We encourage you to learn more about our programs
to support independent voices, and our passion to ensure that compelling films can find
their audiences.
In that spirit, we welcome you to this 11-day celebration of film. We hope it brings you as
much joy as it did to our staff and board who collaborated over many months to bring this
collection of films and filmmakers to you. Welcome back to the movies!

Anne Lai
Executive Director, SFFILM

Read all bout the 2022 SFFILM Festival here: https://sffilm.org/2022-sffilm-festival/