California Film Institute

06/17/2026

🎬 The woman who beat Donald Trump twice in court, winning lawsuits totalling $88 million, takes center stage in ASK E. JEAN.

This thrilling new documentary traces the life of writer and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll—from groundbreaking magazine editor to one of the most fearless voices in American media.

🎙️ Screening + conversation with director Ivy Meeropol
FRI, JUN 26 | Smith Rafael Film Center
🎟 bit.ly/3RJwSAz

06/17/2026

A Saudi murder mystery from the director of WAJDA, Haifaa Al-Mansour...

“Enjoyable, fearless and unexpected.” – Alliance of Women Film Journalists

“A whodunit that fights the patriarchy in surprising ways. It makes us rethink everything we’ve seen.” – The Hollywood Reporter

UNIDENTIFIED opens FRI, JUN 19
Smith Rafael Film Center
🎟 bit.ly/4a48EaJ

06/16/2026

💙 What if you could talk to someone you'd lost?

O HORIZON follows a young neuroscientist — navigating a new romance and a career breakthrough — who gets the chance to speak with her late father again through a startling new technology—starring Maria Bakalova and David Strathairn in this touching dramedy that will stay with you.

📅 Opens THIS FRI, JUN 19 | Smith Rafael Film Center
🎟️ bit.ly/4vM5Ib0

06/16/2026

MarinIJ film picks include: SUNDANCE SHORTS TOUR! Here for a very short time...

THU 6/18 & SAT 6/20 only! | Smith Rafael Film Center
🎟️ bit.ly/4o5fUZy

Marin Independent Journal

• The Corte Madera Library’s next teen/tween movie night will feature a screening of “Coraline” at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the library at 707 Meadowsweet Drive in Corte Madera. Admission is free. Snacks will be provided. Go to marin…

06/16/2026

A nature doc mixed with autobiography, TIME & WATER is a poetic musing on intergenerational memory, a whimsical, yet staunchly political elegy for the glaciers, and a mournful look at the Earth in all her majesty and mystery — one that shows how craven capitalism over the last several hundred years has destroyed her, not just for the present, but for the future as well.

Now Playing | PLUS a special screening with Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Sara Dosa in person this week!

Smith Rafael Film Center
🎟️ bit.ly/4v06Vv6

National Geographic Documentary Films Sara Dosa

"Fire of Love" director Sara Dosa returns with a much colder but equally beautiful film about the first glacier to "die" from climate change.

06/16/2026

🕉️ A rare piece of film history returns to the screen.

THE DALAI LAMA’S GIFT revisits a 1981 Kalachakra initiation in rural Wisconsin, when a cornfield became the site of an extraordinary Buddhist ceremony attended by over 1,000 people.

Recently restored from 16mm archival footage, the film brings this remarkable moment of devotion, community, and spiritual convergence back to life.

🎙️ Film + conversation with director Ed Bastian, special guest Robert Thurman (via Zoom), and moderator Gaetano Kazuo Maida of the Buddhist Film Foundation.

Co-presented by the Buddhist Film Foundation

SUN, JUN 21 • 4:30PM | Smith Rafael Film Center
🎟️ bit.ly/4umczrz

06/16/2026

This month's retrospective David Lynch series continues with THE ELEPHANT MAN!

Followed by a post-screening conversation led by Karen Davis (MVFF Senior Programmer Emerita)!

📆 SAT, JUNE 20 @ 11AM | Smith Rafael Film Center, San Rafael
🎟️ $5 Admission: bit.ly/4us6p8E

06/15/2026

🎸 A voice that helped define Southern rock—on the big screen.

Join us for GREGG ALLMAN, a powerful documentary tracing the life, music, and legacy of the legendary singer-songwriter and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band.

A moving portrait of music, fame, and the cost of a life lived in full volume from Rolling Stone Films.

📅 WED, JUN 17 & THU, JUN 18 | Smith Rafael Film Center
🎟️ bit.ly/3Rb9V9p

06/12/2026

This is only the beginning, Paris. The cast of Disclosure Day has arrived.

Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, and Colman Domingo.

Sequoia Cinema, Mill Valley
🎟 bit.ly/3SgET06

06/11/2026

🎬 TIME AND WATER and Academy Award®–nominated director Sara Dosa (Fire of Love) are headed to the Rafael!

From National Geographic Documentary Films, the film follows Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason as he confronts the disappearance of his country’s glaciers and the passing of his grandparents. Turning to his archives, he constructs a time capsule of family photographs, stories, and memory—an attempt to hold onto what is slipping away.

A poetic meditation on love, land, and impermanence.

📅 Now Playing | Film + Conversation: THU, JUN 18 | Smith Rafael Film Center
🎟️ bit.ly/4v06Vv6