Cinema Events

The following is a list of all our future, current and past events.

You can also view our Events Calendar to view the events in a calendar view.

Tuesday, December 07, 2021

Gems from the San Francisco State University Cinema Vault: Programmer & Filmmaker Craig Baldwin Projects in Coppola Theater

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

A Conversation with the Bay Area Lesbian Archives (BALA)

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

New Directions in Online Screenings with Inney Prakash of Prismatic Ground Festival

Monday, September 27, 2021

Never Forget – Erasing our Memory of Endless War

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

CROSSROADS Festival, Program 6 - this is called moving
THE LOBSTER, dir.Yorgos Lanthimos, Screening at The Coppola Theatre

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

What A Rabbit Taught Me: Emiko Omori & The Authentic Voice

Sunday, August 29, 2021

The First Rainbow Coalition: Film Screening + Panel on Intersectional Organizing commemorating the 10th Anniversary Edition of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels & Black Power

Friday, May 28, 2021

Cinema Valediction Ceremony for the Class of 2021

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Online Tours With Cinema Technical Staff
CINE 620 Advanced Fiction Filmmaking Screening

Saturday, May 22, 2021

61st Film Finals Showcase and School of Cinema Awards

Friday, May 21, 2021

Graduate School Forum

Thursday, May 20, 2021

Animation Finals
MA in Cinema Studies Graduation Celebration

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

CINE 640 Undergraduate Documentary Thesis Screening
Tanya Zimbardo (Curator at San Francisco MOMA)

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Online Tours With Cinema Technical Staff

Monday, May 17, 2021

Queer Film Finals
Mollye Asher (Producer of the award-winning film by Chloe Zhao Nomadland) and Jessica Bruder (Author of Nomadland)

Monday, May 17, 2021 to Saturday, May 22, 2021

End of the Year 2021 Showcase

Friday, May 14, 2021

Amusing Tales from Fifty Years of Film – What Has Changed? With Professor Steve Kovacs

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Online Tours With Cinema Technical Staff

Friday, May 07, 2021

Black Film Culture "Women of the L.A. Rebellion" a conversation with Barbara McCullough, Zeinabu Irene Davis & Dr. Artel Great

Tuesday, May 04, 2021

Archive Project Event - “Queer Cinema of San Francisco State University”
Online Tours With Cinema Technical Staff

Friday, April 30, 2021

Unseeing Empire and Cinema Studies: A Conversation with Bakirathi Mani and Patricia White

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Archive Project Event - “Stories from Elsewhere”

Friday, April 23, 2021

650.3 – Masterclass with Filmmaker Pete Nicks: “Contemporary Verité Filmmaking”
Women Of Color In Hollywood: 2021 - Creators

Friday, April 16, 2021

Women Of Color In Hollywood: 2021 - Agency

Friday, April 02, 2021

Filipinx in Animation

Friday, March 19, 2021

Women Of Color In Hollywood: 2021 - Law & Finance

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Cousin Collective: On Curating Indigenous Film

Friday, March 12, 2021

650.2 – Masterclass with Filmmaker Christopher Münch: “‘Speculative History’ – Fiction Filmmaking Inspired by History”
Women Of Color In Hollywood: 2021 - Development & Executive Producing

Friday, March 05, 2021

Cinema 325.03 - George Sluizer - Documentaries And Features

Friday, February 26, 2021

650.1 – Masterclass with Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi: “Personal Documentary”

Friday, February 19, 2021 to Saturday, February 20, 2021

Cinema 325.02 - The Best Of Eastern European Cinema

Thursday, February 11, 2021 to Friday, February 12, 2021

Mediating Democracy: Contemporary Politics in Film and Media

Tuesday, February 09, 2021

Archive Project Event - "Archive of Hidden Voices"

Friday, February 05, 2021

Cinema 325.01—Cinema Faculty Showcase

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Archive Project presents Imagine Our Future: Terri Francis, Black Film Center/Archive

Friday, December 11, 2020

Internships 101 Workshop

Tuesday, December 08, 2020

International Students Films Night

Friday, December 04, 2020

Cinema Cocktail Hour: Drew Dixon: Music Producer and Subject of documentary On The Record (2020)

Thursday, December 03, 2020

MFA Film Screening

Tuesday, December 01, 2020

“Carceral Aesthetics And Abolition” with our special guest Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood, Professor of American Studies and Art History at Rutgers University.

Monday, November 30, 2020 to Sunday, December 06, 2020

Streaming State: Six Curated Programs of SFSU Student Films, 1987-2000

Friday, November 20, 2020

In Conversation With The Alumni Of The Year

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

"The Archive Project: Imagine Our Future" Presents Vero Majano Co-Presented by the Queer Cinema Project

Friday, November 06, 2020

Cinema Cocktail Hour: Harvard University Press

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

SF State University School Of Cinema welcomes Jonas Rivera And Kevin Nolting

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

“The Archive Project: Imagine Our Future” presents Mark Toscano

Friday, October 16, 2020

499 Screening and Q&A with director Rodrigo Reyes

Friday, October 16, 2020 to Sunday, October 18, 2020

Cine 650 Master Classes

Friday, October 02, 2020

October 2 @4pm First Fridays Cinema Cocktail Hour with Pratibha Parmar
First Fridays Cinema Cocktail Hour with Pratibha Parmar

Friday, September 04, 2020

Cinema Cocktail Hour: Whetting Our Appetite for the Future of Cinema

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Cauleen Smith

Thursday, August 20, 2020

SF State University School Of Cinema All-School Convocation

Tuesday, August 04, 2020

MFA Thesis Film Summer Screening and Q & A with filmmakers @ August 4

Friday, May 29, 2020

The Cinema Valediction Ceremony

Friday, May 22, 2020

CINE 612 Undergraduate Showcase

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Animation Finals
MA Graduate Showcase

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Semester-Long Advanced Fiction Filmmaking
Imagining Home: Real Virtuality
Distinguished Alumni Speaker Kristy Guevara-Flanagan

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

The 60th Film Finals

Monday, May 18, 2020

Short Documentaries
“Film Festival Distribution and Beyond” with Giona Nazarro

Sunday, May 17, 2020

Year-long Advanced Fiction Filmmaking

Saturday, May 16, 2020

MFA Thesis Screening #2

Friday, May 15, 2020 to Saturday, May 16, 2020

MFA Thesis Screening #1

Friday, May 15, 2020

Distinguished Alumni Speaker Debbie Lum
Graduate School Advising Forum with SFSU Cinema Faculty

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Town Hall Advising

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

[Canceled] Jose Antonio Vargas: Dear America, Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

Friday, December 06, 2019

Professor Jameson Goldner Memorial

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Do you have questions or opinions about Impeachment?

Monday, October 07, 2019

Birth Of A Movement 2017 - Birth Of A Nation 1915

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

International Documentary Film Workshop Screening

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Cinema Graduate Celebration

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

TICKETS ON SALE NOW for the 59th Annual Film Finals to be held at the Roxie Theater on Tuesday, May 21st!

Monday, May 06, 2019

Redemption Trail Screening directed by Britta Sjogren

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

FREE SOLO screening - Tuesday evening 2/19 in Coppola Theater

Thursday, December 06, 2018

Cinema Advising Presentation/Workshop

Friday, November 30, 2018

Documentary Cinematography and Beyond

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

MFA First Year Film Screening Nov. 13th

Monday, November 05, 2018

“Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg” with Swedish film producer Katinka Farrago

Tuesday, October 09, 2018

Screening: "Abina and the Important Men"

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

International Documentary Film Screening (China, Summer 2018)

Thursday, May 17, 2018

MFA Thesis Screening

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

The Oscar Showcase Tour

Saturday, February 17, 2018

Beyond Iran

Monday, January 29, 2018 to Friday, February 23, 2018

LCA Graduation Workshops

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

David Gropman to visit SF State

Tuesday, November 07, 2017

MFAs First Year Film screening

Thursday, October 19, 2017 to Friday, October 20, 2017

CINEMA DE-CENTERED

Friday, October 13, 2017

Friday Screening of Mythopathy with Director Tassos Boulmetis in person.

Thursday, October 05, 2017

2017 Documentary Film Screening

Monday, May 22, 2017

The School of Cinema Presents 57th Annual Film Finals Festival

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Tonight at the Coppola Theater: screening of five short animated films nominated for Oscars.

Tuesday, February 07, 2017

3rd Annual Veteran Documentary Corps screening of Valor

Friday, September 23, 2016 to Saturday, September 24, 2016

The Watermelon Woman Symposium

Friday, September 09, 2016 to Saturday, October 08, 2016

WOMEN IN FILM: INGRID BERGMAN -- AGNES VARDA – LINA WERTMULLER

Sunday, May 01, 2016 to Tuesday, May 03, 2016

Film Finals

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Peace Officer

Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Kutluğ Ataman: Journey to the Moon