California Film Institute

🎬 Three doctors. One oath. A fight that doesn't end when they come home.

AMERICAN DOCTOR follows three American physicians — Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian — who volunteered in besieged hospitals in Gaza and returned determined to keep fighting for the patients and colleagues they left behind. What starts as a story of medicine becomes a gripping battle that reaches all the way to the halls of Congress.

🎙️ Post-screening conversation with Oscar®-nominated, Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker Poh Si Teng, and film subjects Dr. Thaer Ahmad, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa — in person.

📍 SUN, AUG 23 • 4:30 PM | Smith Rafael Film Center, San Rafael
🎟️ bit.ly/4xGN4SW

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MVFF49 | Oct 1-11 (Save the date!)

The story of 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain as he travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen — setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.

Opens this THU, AUG 20 | Sequoia Cinema, Mill Valley
🎟️ bit.ly/4bIqMre

A24

"An emotional gut punch of a film" –ScreenDaily

AMERICAN DOCTOR follows three American physicians — Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian — who volunteered in besieged hospitals in Gaza and returned home determined to keep fighting for the patients and colleagues they left behind.

What starts as a story of medicine becomes a gripping fight that reaches all the way to the halls of Congress.

🎙️ With a post-screening conversation featuring Oscar®-nominated, Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker Poh Si Teng and film subjects Dr. Thaer Ahmad, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
in person.

📍 SUN, AUG 23 • 4:30 PM | Smith Rafael Film Center, San Rafael
🎟️ bit.ly/4xGN4SW

"The movie abounds in exquisite grace notes. Willem Dafoe is magnificent." – Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter

Willem Dafoe stars as a forgotten New York poet swept into a circle of young admirers who anoint him a rediscovered genius — and intoxicated by the alluring presence of Greta Lee's "tragic heroine."

From director Kent Jones (DIANE) and screenwriter Samy Burch (MAY DECEMBER).

📍 Opens THU, AUG 20 | Smith Rafael Film Center, San Rafael
🎟 bit.ly/4fE58a9

Winner of the Q***r Palm, this transformative Cannes favorite brings together Hannah Einbinder as a director resurrecting a dead slasher franchise, and Gillian Anderson as its reclusive original star. Together, they unleash a blood-soaked fever dream ruled by desire, delirium, and one spear-wielding killer.

From Jane Schoenbrun (I SAW THE TV GLOW), TEENAGE S*X AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA proves there's no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

📍 Opens THU, AUG 20 | Smith Rafael Film Center, San Rafael
🎟️ bit.ly/45mw9ZR