An offshoot of the San Francisco Independent Film Festival, theGreen Film Festival of San Franciscooffers an array of short and feature films that highlight our natural world — from the return of wild animals to urban environments to threats to our planet’s survival.
Primarily a documentary festival, there are a few fiction titles to sate lovers of narratives, too.
The festival runs Thursday, April 14, through Sunday, April 17, at the Roxie Theatre, and virtually through April 24. Tickets to live screenings are $15, while online access is $10.
Here are a few of this year’s highlights:
Green Film Festival of S.F. opening night films look at wildlife and humans’ struggle to coexist
‘Do I Need This?’
诺瓦托导演凯特Schermerhorn使用幽默,她own relationship with her possessions and the experiences of others to underline how human consumption impacts our planet in her informative and entertaining documentary.
It screens with the Mill Valley Film Group’s “The New Environmentalists,” exploring environmental activists from around the world who won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize that honors the work of everyday people.
8 p.m. Thursday, April 14. Also available online.
‘The Feast’
Environmental degradation and class struggle are at the heart of this elegant Welsh drama that evolves into a gross-out, nerve-racking horror film.
8:45 p.m. Friday, April 15, only at the Roxie.
‘War and Weather’
The music of Philip Glass accompanies this experimental film about atmospheric rivers and how they have played a part in American history.
The festival submission will be accompanied by an encore screening of opening night film “Taking the Reins,” a documentary that looks at the environmental impact of an Alameda County cattle ranch.
Noon Saturday, April 16. Also available online.
‘Elephant Keeper’
Austin, Texas-based activist filmmaker Kate Kirby’s documentary explores the relationship between a mahout and the 60-year-old elephant he tends at a Laotian elephant conservation center.
2 p.m. Saturday, April 16. Also available online.
‘Silent Running’
Bruce Dern stars in Douglas Trumbull’s 1972 sci-fi classic as a botanist on a spacecraft who rebels when ordered to destroy the flora and fauna — the last of its kind with none left on Earth — on the ship.
8:45 p.m. Saturday, April 16, only at the Roxie.
‘The Message of the Lyrebird’
Australian documentarian Mark B. Pearce’s film examines the titular fowl, an Australian bird with a gift of mimicry that extends to reproducing sounds like chainsaws — and what does that talent portend as humans come closer to the lyrebirds’ natural environment?
Online only.
Green Film Festival of San Francisco:Thursday-Sunday, April 14-17. $10-15. Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St., S.F. Also streaming online through April 24. For the full schedule, visitsfgreen2022.eventive.org.