SF Bay Area film festivals

January

Noir City Film Festival  

February

Legacy Film Festival on Aging*

San Francisco IndieFest*

Mostly British Film Festival*

March

Berlin & Beyond Film Festival*

Cinequest Film Festival *

SF Urban Film Fest*

Unnamed Footage Festival*

Sonoma International Film Festival

San Francisco Greek Film Festival*

Napa Valley FORK2FILM Festival

April

BAMPFA Student Committee Film Festival

Napa Valley StreamFest

Doclands - Documentary Film Festival

International Ocean Film Festival*

SFFILM Festival*

Poppy Jasper International Film Festival 

Bay Area Indies Film Festival*

Sonoma County Student Film Festival

San Francisco International Film Awards*

May

Film Finals School of Cinema*

CAAMFest - Center for Asian American Media Festival*

Love Lives in SF Film Festival*

San Francisco DocFest*

Warped - Another Hole in the Head*

NXTUP Fest - Academy of Art*

Sex Workers Film & Arts Festival

June

Frameline Film Festival*

QWOCMAP - Queer Women of Color Film Festival*

San Francisco Black Film Festival*

July

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival*

BraveMaker Film Festival

SF Frozen Film Festival*

Marin County Fair International Festival of Short Film & Video

San Francisco Social and Economic Justice Film Festival*

August

Crossroads- San Francisco Cinematheque*

SF Queer Film Festival*

September

Healdsburg International Short Film Festival

San Francisco Science Fiction Short Film & TV Awards*

October

Cine+Mas SF – San Francisco Latino Film Festival*

Brainwash Movie Festival* 

United Nations Association Film Festival

San Francisco Dance Film Festival*

Mill Valley Film Festival

Superfest Disability Film Festival*

San Francisco IndieShorts Film Festival*

3rd i – San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival*

Green and Environmental Film Fest of San Francisco*

Fist Up Film Festival*

San Quentin Film Festival

November

San Francisco International New Concept Film Festival*

Arab Film and Media Institute - Arab Film Festival*

San Francisco Transgender Film Festival*

San Francisco Silent Film Festival

Doc Stories*

BASH = Bay Area & Sacramento Shorts Film Festival

San Francisco Underground Short Film Festival*

San Francisco International New Concept Film Festival*

December

Festival of the Moving Image*

Another Hole In The Head Film Festival*

*Festivals based in San Francisco