SF360 Movie Night

SF360’s San Francisco Movie Night is a citywide film screening held in partnership with Film Movement, a  monthly DVD subscription club that provides early access to award-winning independent and foreign film. The event invites Bay Area friends and neighbors to gather for house party screenings of a specially selected film on a single designated evening. Hosts are provided with discussion questions and invited to  participate in a  discussion following the screening at a local establishment.

Visit Film Movement to find out how to receive films for your screening party.

How It Works

Step 1 Order the film from Film Movement. SFFS members get a discount. For more information about the discount contact members@sffs.org or call 415-561-5020.

Step 2 Get together with a group of friends to watch the SF360 Movie Night film.

Step 3 Join Film Society staff and friends for an afters-creening discussion at an establishment to be announced.

SF360 Movie Night November 29

7:00 pm Her Name Is Sabine
Elle s’appelle Sabine
(Sandrine Bonnaire;France 2007, 85 mins) An intelligent, moving and beautiful documentary portrait of Sabine, a 38-year-old autistic woman, filmed by her sister, the French actress Sandrine Bonnaire. Personal footage filmed over a period of 25 years reveals that Sabine’s growth and many talents were crushed by improper diagnosis and an inadequate care structure. After a tragic five-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, Sabine finally finds a new lease on life in a home together with other young people living with similar mental and emotional illnesses. This very intimate film also sends an urgent message to a society that still does not properly take care of its citizens with physical and psychological disabilities.

9:30 pm After-Party at Tosca Café
Join us for a discussion and celebration at Tosca Café at 9:30 pm following your screenings.

The San Francisco Film Society
The San Francisco Film Society embraces the art, technology and innovation of the world’s most imaginative storytellers who use the moving image to celebrate humanity while educating, entertaining and enriching the audiences of the world.

Film Movement
Film choices are dictated to us by a smaller and smaller group of major studios, which decide to release films based mostly on their star quotient and marketability. Many of the films that we want to see get squeezed out of theaters by Hollywood blockbusters and face skyrocketing marketing costs that make it daunting—if not impossible—to reach appreciative audiences. Film Movement was created because the system of releasing independent, foreign and documentary films needed to be changed. Film Movement believes that the only way to change the system is to reach out to film fans directly. By supporting Film Movement, you are directly supporting independent and foreign film.