SFFILM: Doc Stories 11/3-11/6

This vital documentary showcase celebrates many of the year's most important nonfiction works, all premiering for the first time in the Bay Area. The 2022 program focuses on the wondrous aspects of the human condition, exposing our vast capacity for change and creativity. With nine features and 12 short films, the program includes portraits of renowned individuals such as Louis Armstrong, Nan Goldin, former Governor Jerry Brown, and Robert Downey Sr., along with inspirational stories about the French Laundry’s original owner Sally Schmitt; the first female mayor in Afghanistan, Zarifa Gahfari; and a motley crew of Wisconsin-based flagmakers. We will be joined in person by Academy Award-winning directors including Laura Poitras, Cynthia Wade, and Ben Proudfoot, along with multi-hyphenate Sacha Jenkins, and Iron Man himself: Robert Downey Jr.

11/3 7:00PM Opening Night: Jerry Brown: The Disrupter

11/4 5:00PM Shorts Block: New York Times Op-Docs

11/4 8:00PM Centerpiece: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

11/5 12:30PM Sansón and Me

11/5 3:00PM Lakota Nation vs. United States

11/5 6:00PM In Her Hands

11/5 8:30PM All That Breathes

11/6 10:30AM Mickey: The Story of a Mouse

11/6 1:00PM Shorts Block: Human Exposure

11/6 3:00PM Closing Night: “Sr.”

11/6 4:00PM Community Screening: Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues