18th San Francisco Latino Film Festival -Various Locations
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18th Cine+Más San Francisco Latino Film Festival
October 22-November 1, 2026
The 18th Cine+Más San Francisco Latino Film Festival brings films from across the U.S., Latin America and Spain to venues throughout San Francisco. This year's lineup celebrates Latino stories and filmmakers through documentaries, dramas, comedies and films exploring culture, identity, family, migration and community.
🌟 STREET SMART: Lessons from a TV Icon - Opening Night
📅 Thursday, October 22 | 6 PM
📍 Roxie Theater
Directed by Ernie Bustamante | USA
Beloved *Sesame Street* icon Sonia Manzano reflects on her South Bronx childhood and groundbreaking journey as a Latina television pioneer in this warm and inspiring documentary about representation, perseverance and the power of television to shape generations.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/street-smart-lessons-from-a-tv-icon-opening-night-film-6aa49e58d949d4b437d58a77
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❤️ CARMELA AND THE WALKERS / CARMELA Y LOS CAMINANTES
📅 Friday, October 23 | 6:30 PM
📍 Artists' Television Access
Directed by Esteban Coloma & Luis Herrera | Ecuador
An Afro-Ecuadorian woman shelters Venezuelan migrants while confronting family upheaval, closed borders and the personal cost of compassion. A moving portrait of migration, generosity and the people who open their doors when others need help.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/carmela-and-the-walkers-6ab1f48fff271873b07f4ec7
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🔥 COMPARSA
📅 Saturday, October 24 | 12:30 PM
📍 Roxie Theater
Directed by Vickie Curtis & Doug Anderson | Guatemala / USA
Two Guatemalan sisters transform grief into resistance, using giant puppets, fire and performance to confront gender violence. *Comparsa* is an inspiring story of sisterhood, community and the power of art as a force for change.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/comparsa-6ab20cf502f00b8b0133b94d
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🦋 LIBERTAD
📅 Sunday, October 25 | 1 PM
📍 Roxie Theater
Directed by Brenda Ávila-Hanna | USA / Mexico
A transgender woman who fled Mexico decades ago seeks asylum for the chance to reunite with her ailing mother. *Libertad* is an intimate and deeply human story about family, identity, migration and the enduring search for home.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/libertad-6ab3e221b3ac38787980eec3
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🌿 GARDEN OF SILENCES / JARDIM DOS SILÊNCIOS
📅 Sunday, October 25 | 3:30 PM
📍 Artists' Television Access
Directed by Henrique Dantas | Brazil / Italy
A doctor raised in Italy returns to Brazil and confronts family memories of dictatorship, disappearance and exile. A poignant story about memory, identity and how political history continues to reverberate across generations.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/garden-of-silences-6ab3fca6cdf67b1cad325a81
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✨ OCA
📅 Sunday, October 25 | 6 PM
📍 Artists' Television Access
Directed by Karla Badillo | Mexico / Argentina
Haunted by prophetic dreams, a young nun sets out to find an archbishop and encounters the extraordinary along the way. Playful, mysterious and beautifully offbeat, *OCA* takes audiences on an unexpected pilgrimage through faith and destiny.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/oca-6ab3fd305e982d467597b548
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🎶 BIRD OF FOUR HUNDRED VOICES: A Mexican American Memoir of Music and Belonging
📅 Thursday, October 29 | 7 PM
📍 The Commons at KQED
Directed by James Hall | USA
A barrio youth group preserves Mexican traditions, builds community and bridges generations through decades of music and cultural activism. This special screening celebrates the remarkable story and cultural legacy of Bay Area institution Los Cenzontles.
🎶 The evening also features a live performance by Los Cenzontles.
🎟️ Tickets: https://www.tixr.com/groups/kqed/events/premiere-screening-bird-of-four-hundred-voices-feat-los-cenzotles-live-204370
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💭 THEYDREAM
📅 Friday, October 30 | 7 PM
📍 Apple Cinemas
Directed by William D. Caballero | USA
After devastating family losses, a filmmaker and his mother use animation to bring loved ones back to life. Tender and imaginative, TheyDream explores family, memory, grief and the healing possibilities of creativity.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/they-dream-6aaee731529203cd18695c94
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🌿 MAXITA
What does it mean to care for the Earth? In MAXITA, we travel with someone who has spent his life defending it.
Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa journeys from the Amazon to Brazil’s mining regions and reunites with fellow Indigenous leader Ailton Krenak. Together, they offer a different way of seeing the land and our responsibility to it.
Join us at the San Francisco Main Public Library for the U.S. premiere of this documentary.
📅 Saturday, October 31 | 2 PM
📍 San Francisco Main Public Library
🎬 Directed by Mariana Machado & Ana Maria Machado
🗣️ Portuguese with English subtitles
🎟️ Screening details:
https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/films/maxita-6ab1eed9a266cd6318141162
#CineMasSF #Maxita #IndigenousCinema #BrazilianCinema
🌏 FOREIGNER / EXTRANJERA
📅 Saturday, October 31 | 3 PM
📍 Apple Cinemas
Directed by Michelle Malley Campos | Puerto Rico / Taiwan
Fleeing her father's corruption scandal, an artist escapes to Taiwan, where new friendships and unexpected passions offer a temporary refuge. But confronting her estranged mother ultimately forces her to stop running and face her own story.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/foreigner-6ab4089063646a5fa37777f0
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🏠 OWNERSHIPS / NUDA PROPIEDAD
📅 Saturday, October 31 | 5:15 PM
📍 Apple Cinemas
Directed by Alberto Utrera | Spain
A couple thinks they have found the real-estate deal of a lifetime: a bargain apartment whose elderly owner can remain there until his death. Their dream purchase becomes an increasingly dark obsession when he proves far less ready to die than expected. A wickedly funny comedy about property, greed and impatience.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/ownership-6ab3efbab7808d227a90fd71
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✍️ WRITER / ESCRITOR
📅 Saturday, October 31 | 7:30 PM
📍 Apple Cinemas
Directed by Paula de Luque | Argentina
Argentina, 1956. Writer Rodolfo Walsh begins investigating survivors of a massacre, drawing him into a dangerous confrontation with state power. *Writer* explores the investigation that would change Walsh's life and leave its mark on Argentine history.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/writer-6ab3ef723d2dba8ea4b751f8
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🍓 STRAWBERRY LIPS / LABIOS DE FRESA
📅 Sunday, November 1 | 2:30 PM
📍 Apple Cinemas
Directed by Clara Martínez-Lázaro | Spain
When introverted Max reunites with his childhood friend Leo-now Anita-unexpected feelings of attraction and love challenge everything he thought he knew. A tender story about friendship, identity and discovering that love does not always arrive in the form we expect.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/strawberry-lips-lucrecia-the-witches-6ab3e4665e982d46759245a6
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🌴 CASA PURA
📅 Sunday, November 1 | 5 PM
📍 Apple Cinemas
Directed by Bruno Irizarry | Puerto Rico
After a hurricane destroys his hotel, a grieving man searches for a missing will and traces of his wife's legacy. *Casa Pura* is a story about family, loss, memory and what it means to preserve the people and places we call home.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/casa-pura-6ab3d7bf92ca34a98de6371c
October 22-November 1, 2026
The 18th Cine+Más San Francisco Latino Film Festival brings films from across the U.S., Latin America and Spain to venues throughout San Francisco. This year's lineup celebrates Latino stories and filmmakers through documentaries, dramas, comedies and films exploring culture, identity, family, migration and community.
🌟 STREET SMART: Lessons from a TV Icon - Opening Night
📅 Thursday, October 22 | 6 PM
📍 Roxie Theater
Directed by Ernie Bustamante | USA
Beloved *Sesame Street* icon Sonia Manzano reflects on her South Bronx childhood and groundbreaking journey as a Latina television pioneer in this warm and inspiring documentary about representation, perseverance and the power of television to shape generations.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/street-smart-lessons-from-a-tv-icon-opening-night-film-6aa49e58d949d4b437d58a77
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❤️ CARMELA AND THE WALKERS / CARMELA Y LOS CAMINANTES
📅 Friday, October 23 | 6:30 PM
📍 Artists' Television Access
Directed by Esteban Coloma & Luis Herrera | Ecuador
An Afro-Ecuadorian woman shelters Venezuelan migrants while confronting family upheaval, closed borders and the personal cost of compassion. A moving portrait of migration, generosity and the people who open their doors when others need help.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/carmela-and-the-walkers-6ab1f48fff271873b07f4ec7
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🔥 COMPARSA
📅 Saturday, October 24 | 12:30 PM
📍 Roxie Theater
Directed by Vickie Curtis & Doug Anderson | Guatemala / USA
Two Guatemalan sisters transform grief into resistance, using giant puppets, fire and performance to confront gender violence. *Comparsa* is an inspiring story of sisterhood, community and the power of art as a force for change.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/comparsa-6ab20cf502f00b8b0133b94d
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🦋 LIBERTAD
📅 Sunday, October 25 | 1 PM
📍 Roxie Theater
Directed by Brenda Ávila-Hanna | USA / Mexico
A transgender woman who fled Mexico decades ago seeks asylum for the chance to reunite with her ailing mother. *Libertad* is an intimate and deeply human story about family, identity, migration and the enduring search for home.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/libertad-6ab3e221b3ac38787980eec3
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🌿 GARDEN OF SILENCES / JARDIM DOS SILÊNCIOS
📅 Sunday, October 25 | 3:30 PM
📍 Artists' Television Access
Directed by Henrique Dantas | Brazil / Italy
A doctor raised in Italy returns to Brazil and confronts family memories of dictatorship, disappearance and exile. A poignant story about memory, identity and how political history continues to reverberate across generations.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/garden-of-silences-6ab3fca6cdf67b1cad325a81
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✨ OCA
📅 Sunday, October 25 | 6 PM
📍 Artists' Television Access
Directed by Karla Badillo | Mexico / Argentina
Haunted by prophetic dreams, a young nun sets out to find an archbishop and encounters the extraordinary along the way. Playful, mysterious and beautifully offbeat, *OCA* takes audiences on an unexpected pilgrimage through faith and destiny.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/oca-6ab3fd305e982d467597b548
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🎶 BIRD OF FOUR HUNDRED VOICES: A Mexican American Memoir of Music and Belonging
📅 Thursday, October 29 | 7 PM
📍 The Commons at KQED
Directed by James Hall | USA
A barrio youth group preserves Mexican traditions, builds community and bridges generations through decades of music and cultural activism. This special screening celebrates the remarkable story and cultural legacy of Bay Area institution Los Cenzontles.
🎶 The evening also features a live performance by Los Cenzontles.
🎟️ Tickets: https://www.tixr.com/groups/kqed/events/premiere-screening-bird-of-four-hundred-voices-feat-los-cenzotles-live-204370
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💭 THEYDREAM
📅 Friday, October 30 | 7 PM
📍 Apple Cinemas
Directed by William D. Caballero | USA
After devastating family losses, a filmmaker and his mother use animation to bring loved ones back to life. Tender and imaginative, TheyDream explores family, memory, grief and the healing possibilities of creativity.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/they-dream-6aaee731529203cd18695c94
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🌿 MAXITA
What does it mean to care for the Earth? In MAXITA, we travel with someone who has spent his life defending it.
Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa journeys from the Amazon to Brazil’s mining regions and reunites with fellow Indigenous leader Ailton Krenak. Together, they offer a different way of seeing the land and our responsibility to it.
Join us at the San Francisco Main Public Library for the U.S. premiere of this documentary.
📅 Saturday, October 31 | 2 PM
📍 San Francisco Main Public Library
🎬 Directed by Mariana Machado & Ana Maria Machado
🗣️ Portuguese with English subtitles
🎟️ Screening details:
https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/films/maxita-6ab1eed9a266cd6318141162
#CineMasSF #Maxita #IndigenousCinema #BrazilianCinema
🌏 FOREIGNER / EXTRANJERA
📅 Saturday, October 31 | 3 PM
📍 Apple Cinemas
Directed by Michelle Malley Campos | Puerto Rico / Taiwan
Fleeing her father's corruption scandal, an artist escapes to Taiwan, where new friendships and unexpected passions offer a temporary refuge. But confronting her estranged mother ultimately forces her to stop running and face her own story.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/foreigner-6ab4089063646a5fa37777f0
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🏠 OWNERSHIPS / NUDA PROPIEDAD
📅 Saturday, October 31 | 5:15 PM
📍 Apple Cinemas
Directed by Alberto Utrera | Spain
A couple thinks they have found the real-estate deal of a lifetime: a bargain apartment whose elderly owner can remain there until his death. Their dream purchase becomes an increasingly dark obsession when he proves far less ready to die than expected. A wickedly funny comedy about property, greed and impatience.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/ownership-6ab3efbab7808d227a90fd71
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✍️ WRITER / ESCRITOR
📅 Saturday, October 31 | 7:30 PM
📍 Apple Cinemas
Directed by Paula de Luque | Argentina
Argentina, 1956. Writer Rodolfo Walsh begins investigating survivors of a massacre, drawing him into a dangerous confrontation with state power. *Writer* explores the investigation that would change Walsh's life and leave its mark on Argentine history.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/writer-6ab3ef723d2dba8ea4b751f8
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🍓 STRAWBERRY LIPS / LABIOS DE FRESA
📅 Sunday, November 1 | 2:30 PM
📍 Apple Cinemas
Directed by Clara Martínez-Lázaro | Spain
When introverted Max reunites with his childhood friend Leo-now Anita-unexpected feelings of attraction and love challenge everything he thought he knew. A tender story about friendship, identity and discovering that love does not always arrive in the form we expect.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/strawberry-lips-lucrecia-the-witches-6ab3e4665e982d46759245a6
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🌴 CASA PURA
📅 Sunday, November 1 | 5 PM
📍 Apple Cinemas
Directed by Bruno Irizarry | Puerto Rico
After a hurricane destroys his hotel, a grieving man searches for a missing will and traces of his wife's legacy. *Casa Pura* is a story about family, loss, memory and what it means to preserve the people and places we call home.
🎟️ Tickets: https://cinemassf2026.eventive.org/schedule/casa-pura-6ab3d7bf92ca34a98de6371c
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Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St,San Francisco, California, United States
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