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2025 San Francisco Documentary Festival

Audience Award for Best Feature: Rebel With A Clause

Audience Award for Best Short: The Believers


Jury Prize for Best Feature: Flamingo Camp

Jury Prize for Best Short:  Bad Hostage


Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Activism: Life After

Special Jury Prize for Excellence in American Profiles: No Bad Takes: An American Picture Show with William T. Vollmann



"What makes the scrappy San Francisco Documentary Film Festival a treasure to SF Bay Area filmgoers is its willingness to take that extra step to show films a little more out there than bog standard documentaries." - Peter Wong, Broke Ass Stuart


“Docfest offers a zippy blend of politics, music, social issues and youth-oriented subcultures. The good news is that DocFest promotes documentaries as a vibrant, irreverent form of entertainment to a younger demographic, blasting the notion of educational films to smithereens. There’s no room for anything approximating — watch it, I’m about to blaspheme – the obsessively measured and utterly somnambulant musings of Ken Burns.” – Michael Fox, KQED

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Tickets for live shows at the Roxie and Vogue Theaters are $18/16

Tickets for all virtual presentations are $10

The Opening Night film is $20




MOVIES FOR ALL: With proof of an EBT/SNAP card, folks are now eligible for $5 movie tickets at SF DocFest!

Tickets are redeemable online or at the box office. For ordering live shows online, please be prepared to show your EBT card when checking in at the box office. To order tickets to virtual presentations email a photo of yourself holding your card to info@sfindie.com to unlock your $5 tickets to virtual shows. The discount code to use when checking out at the box office is "moviesforall." Limit one ticket per show per cardholder. 

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Roxie Theater Accessibility Info: https://roxie.com/plan-your-visit/theater-accessibility/


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Greetings From The Resistance sidebar program at this year's DocFest.

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THANK YOU TO THIS YEAR'S DOCFEST SUPPORTERS:

MARTY AND DEB MYERS

LINDA SMITH

SARAH AIRD

MARIA F.






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