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Explore SFDFF 2019

Festival Dates: November 2 - 10.
Art and experimental, documentaries, family films, live performance capture, or shorts – San Francisco Dance Film Festival 2019 offers something for each of us. The stories span an emotional range but share one common thread: compelling dance entertainment. Enjoy!

Lil Buck:
Real Swan

Through his eyes, we discover an amazing community—violence and poverty are everywhere but dance is keeping them alive and proud.

Into the Neural Forest, Bhautik Joshi, Co-Laboratory

Virtual Reality: Into the Neural Forest

Dance Film SF’s 2019 Co-Laboratory film, Into the Neural Forest, is an intimate encounter putting you inside a choreographic model of a brain to witness the birth of an idea. The dance is based on actual brain recordings and will be presented both in VR and on a holographic display.

Queen + Béjart:
Ballet For Life

SFDFF invites you to join us in celebrating the North American premiere of Queen + Béjart: Ballet For Life by Lynne Wake.

2019 Festival Award Winners

Bringing his experience in the ballet world with him, Lil Buck heads back to South Memphis to teach dance to the youth, offering them the chance of a better future ...
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Lil Buck: Real Swan

Betroffenheit is a riveting, tender-hearted exploration of loss, isolation and survival in the aftermath of a life-altering tragedy. This dance-theatre hybrid has been awarded "best dance show of the 21st ...
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Betroffenheit

ABOUT FACE is the first of a 3-part short film series that puts a different spin on the school to prison pipeline and the role of fathers of black and ...
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About Face

Three sisters grow up in a broken home. They are at each other's mercy and survive as long as they are together. But is their loving connection strong enough to ...
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Sisters

An Iranian dance film where the performer dances her way through the crowds of narrow bazaar alleys in an elaborate choreography on both the performing and camera-operating side. Shot guerrilla ...
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The Dérive

The concept of the film is based on the physical and emotional behaviour of breathing. This vital living function is manifested in an artificial and yet organic material, plastic, as ...
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