California Film Institute

10/17/2026

⛵ Join us for SAILING SET HER FREE, a documentary about Jocelyn Nash — an icon for SF Bay sailors who charted her own course in a male-dominated sport.

🎙️ Followed by a conversation with director Oleg Harencar (RON HOLLAND: THE VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY).

📍 THU, OCT 22 | Smith Rafael Film Center
🎟️ bit.ly/4zlrOng

Special thanks to our community partner Sausalito Community Boating

SCBC at Cass Gidley Marina

10/16/2026

🎙️ One split-second decision. A lifetime of seeking forgiveness.

Years after a devastating moment in the Iraq War, a haunted U.S. Marine seeks to reconcile with the Iraqi family whose lives he changed forever. Boyd Holbrook, Hiam Abbass, and Kenneth Branagh star in ATONEMENT, a powerfully human story about the costs of war and the nature of forgiveness.
Join us for a Q&A with filmmaker Reed Van Dyk after the 4:30PM screening on SUN, OCT 18.

📍 Now Playing • Special screening with filmmaker on SUN, OCT 18 | Smith Rafael Film Center, San Rafael
🎟️ bit.ly/4s8fm7p

IndieWire:

Reed Van Dyk's intimate, psychologically astute, and true portrait of the human cost of U.S. imperial violence stars Hiam Abbass and Boyd Holbrook.

10/15/2026

🎬 FALLEN ANGELS is Noël Coward's champagne-fresh comedy of bad manners — sparkling, dizzying, and deliciously scandalous. Two upper-class wives, husbands conveniently away, toast to their pre-marital dalliances... with the same man, who just may be en route from France to visit. Old rivalries bubble up, decorum goes out the window, and pure chaos ensues.

Starring Golden Globe winner Rose Byrne and Tony winner Kelli O'Hara, with Tracee Chimo, Mark Consuelos (in his Broadway debut!), Christopher Fitzgerald, and Aasif Mandvi — filmed live at Broadway's Todd Haimes Theatre.

"Pure escapist fun." — The New York Times

📍 THU, OCT 22 @ 7:00 & SUN, OCT 25 @ 1:00 | Smith Rafael Film Center
🎟️ rafaelfilm.org

Trafalgar Releasing

10/15/2026

Based on Jane Austen's iconic masterpiece, watch the trailer for SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Caitríona Balfe, George MacKay, and Fiona Shaw.

Opens this FRI • Sequoia Cinema
sequoiafilm.org

10/14/2026

Whether you caught these films Mill Valley Film Festival, want to see them again, or have a friend who missed out, join our friends at on select dates in October and November to experience the season’s best q***r cinema, featuring MVFF49 standouts like Clarissa, Tangles, Coward, and the Audience Award-winning Elsinore. The Frameline50 Fall Showcase has something you’ll love — and something else you’ll love to discover.

🎟️ frameline.org

10/14/2026

CARTER COUNTRY... one town at a time...

CARTER tells the story of Plains, Georgia, the small town that rallied behind Jimmy Carter and helped carry him all the way to the White House in 1976.

🎙️Film + Conversation with filmmaker Bobby Buccellato
Tomorrow! THU, OCT 15 | Smith Rafael Film Center
🎟 bit.ly/4i12yuI

10/13/2026

It’s a busy week at the Rafael! 🎬 Grab your tickets for four outstanding films, each followed by an onstage conversation.

🎤 THE WORK IN PROGRESS • Today, TUE, OCT 13
Americans across generations come together for candid conversations about democracy, identity, and community, guided by executive producer Robert Reich.

🎤 THIS BRIGHT LIGHT • WED, OCT 14
MVFF49 Encore w/local filmmaker Alexandra Lexton. After an Olympic-bound gymnast’s life is cut short, a mother-daughter bond endures beyond the physical world.

🎤 CARTER COUNTRY • THU, OCT 15
Follow Jimmy Carter’s unlikely run for the presidency, alongside the small Georgia town that stood behind him.

🎤 ATONEMENT • SUN, OCT 18
A haunted U.S. Marine seeks forgiveness from the Iraqi family his split-second decision devastated, starring Boyd Holbrook, Hiam Abbass, and Kenneth Branagh.

📍 Smith Rafael Film Center, San Rafael
🎟️ rafaelfilm.org

10/13/2026

🎨 The MVFF49 Encore Screening of JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT is TONIGHT.

Told through the memories of his sisters, this intimate portrait of the artist and the man is the only documentary approved by Basquiat’s estate and family.

🏆 Best Editing in a Documentary Feature, 2026 Tribeca Film Festival

📍 Today, TUE, OCT 13 • 7PM | Smith Rafael Film Center, San Rafael
🎟️ bit.ly/4zvYbz5

10/12/2026

Many of you guessed that YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING was the MVFF49 Secret Screening. 🤫 That wasn’t correct… but the good news? It’s coming to the Sequoia!

Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss.

From boundary-pushing directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim.

📍 Opens THU, OCT 15 | Sequoia Cinema, Mill Valley
🎟️ sequoiafilm.org

A24

10/12/2026

🎬 From being a local student filmmaker to A24 director, thank you, Kane Parsons for coming by to talk about your journey—and BACKROOMS!

Shout out to Kane Parson’s schools: Marin School of the Arts and Novato High! And Philips Academy, your student letters have been received. ❤️

Today’s screening was part of our CAFILM Education program with students joining us for this special screening.