Welcome to the program lineup for the 11th annual San Francisco Dance Film Festival. 12 programs will be presented on Marquee TV, along with Catharine Clark Gallery which will provide an opportunity, over an extended period during the festival, to experience two of the programs as live screening events. 2020—the year of such disruption, challenges, […]

Photo by Kate Fim. Lenora Lee Dance and SF Dance Film Festival at Night Watch Launch Party Launch Party for "Night Watch" at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (Free with required registration) 5 – 6:45pm| Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture presents their Fall Arts Preview Party with artwork across the campus. […]

We’re excited to co-present “Bay Area Shorts” at SF Dance Film Festival 2021! SFDFF wouldn’t be what it is without its annual celebration of Bay Area dance films. The two-part program features new work from established dancers and filmmakers and by newcomers venturing behind the camera for the first time. We can’t wait to return […]

San Francisco Dance Film Festival (SFDFF) and San Francisco Public Library continue the tradition of presenting the festival's popular highlight reels. This year SFDFF showcases the Raising Voices program featuring moving stories of immigration, colonialism and the search for cultural identity. Makers from diverse backgrounds champion their causes through a provocative collision of dance, storytelling, […]

Created by Geneva-based digital contemporary dance company Cie Gilles Jobin, Cosmogony is a live digital performance in real time featuring three dancers motion captured live from Geneva and screened in real time remotely. The movements of the dancers are captured in Geneva, sliced up into digital ‘bits’ and sent instantaneously through the cyberspace to appear as avatars, on screen […]

Bay Area artists explore dance on camera with nine films from new filmmakers and veterans alike. From digitally generated dancers to a diverse array of live humans, see individual voices and movement styles translate to the screen in this mixed collection of narrative and experimental shorts.

Flower is a short episodic film series starring world-renowned ballerina and trailblazer Misty Copeland that tells a powerful story through dance and movement. This film, produced by Copeland and Leyla Fayyaz of Life in Motion Productions, shines a light on intergenerational equity, caretaking and the housing crisis in the Bay Area. Set in Oakland, California, […]

Experience the expansive power of imagination and remarkable creative drive in this collection of short experimental screendance works. Through unflinching engagement with inequity, authoritarian delusions, and the climate crisis, filmmakers discover paths to healing and liberation through artistic inspiration and embodied expression that push dance to a higher plane of possibility and meaning. Program Sponsor: […]

Get lost in storytelling with this seamless fusion of dance, dialogue, acting and cinematography. In this selection of six short narrative films, the universal language of dance colors a diverse array of scenes, atmospheres, and characters—each in under 15 minutes. Journey from a whimsical film set to a futuristic digital dystopia and delve deeply into […]

“Dancing in A-Yard” is an intimate look into the lives of ten men in a rehabilitative dance program in Los Angeles County’s California State Prison at Lancaster. By dancing and telling their stories together, these men and their instructor challenge toxic masculinity, confront stigmas faced by incarcerated people, and break the taboo against dancing behind […]