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06/04/2026

⭐️ LINDA PERRY (4 Non Blondes + so much more)—in person!

🎶 Before she became one of the most influential songwriters and producers in music, Linda Perry was the unmistakable voice behind 4 Non Blondes' hit "What's Up?"

LINDA PERRY: LET IT DIE HERE traces her remarkable journey from rock icon to hitmaker for artists including Christina Aguilera, Pink, and Dolly Parton, while offering an intimate look at the challenges, questions, and personal struggles behind the success.

✨ "The rawest, most revealing music documentary in years." — Rolling Stone

🎥 Screening + conversation with director Don Hardy
📅 SAT, JUN 13 | Smith Rafael Film Center
🎟️ bit.ly/3PWSyZq

☀️ June is a fabulous month for films...🎙️ Filmmakers in person: SEQUOIAS OF THE SEA, TIME & WATER, FIRE WITHIN, LINDA P...
06/03/2026

☀️ June is a fabulous month for films...

🎙️ Filmmakers in person:
SEQUOIAS OF THE SEA, TIME & WATER, FIRE WITHIN, LINDA PERRY: LET IT DIE HERE, GUGU'S WORLD, THE DADS, THE DALAI LAMA'S GIFT, ASK E. JEAN, PETER ASHER: EVERYWHERE MAN
(Listed in date order.)

FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH | Films + Convo
Each Saturday in June @ 11AM, $5

🎟 Showtimes: rafaelfilm.org
Letterboxd: bit.ly/4dNDuqh

📣 CAFILM is honored to be a 2026 Arts Grant recipient from the Marin Cultural Association!This support helps us continue...
06/03/2026

📣 CAFILM is honored to be a 2026 Arts Grant recipient from the Marin Cultural Association!

This support helps us continue our mission of bringing diverse, accessible, and community-centered film programming to Marin County year-round—including our CAFILM Education programs.

Special thanks to the Marin Cultural Association and the California Arts Council for investing in the arts and in local cultural organizations that keep cinema thriving in our community. 💛

Read the press release and see the full list of fellow grant recipients: bit.ly/49BuzWw

Photo © Tommy Lau

Marin County Government California Arts Council

🌈 GUGU'S WORLD is a family-friendly coming-of-age story about love, identity, and growing up.🏆 Winner of the Crystal Bea...
06/03/2026

🌈 GUGU'S WORLD is a family-friendly coming-of-age story about love, identity, and growing up.

🏆 Winner of the Crystal Bear for Best Feature Film and the Grand Prix of the International Jury at the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival. Also awarded Best Film, Best Director, and Best Performance at the Guadalajara International Film Festival.

🎙️ US Premiere + conversation with director/producer Allan Deberton
In partnership with Frameline

CAFILM Pride: SAT, JUN 13 • 4PM | Smith Rafael Film Center
🎟️ bit.ly/4tVl2Ry

06/03/2026

Everybody has one hidden talent.

TUNER starring Leo Woodall, Havana Rose Liu, and Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman.

🎬 Now Playing | Smith Rafael Film Center
🎟 bit.ly/3RCxF6o

We are saddened by the passing of Marcia Lucas, Academy Award-winning editor of Star Wars, American Graffiti, Taxi Drive...
06/02/2026

We are saddened by the passing of Marcia Lucas, Academy Award-winning editor of Star Wars, American Graffiti, Taxi Driver, and Return of the Jedi. A founding donor to the Smith Rafael Film Center, Marcia helped make this community cinema a reality. Her belief in the power of film, and in this institution, leaves a lasting legacy. 💛

06/02/2026

🌊 The ocean has a forest too—and it's disappearing.

SEQUOIAS OF THE SEA shines a light on Northern California's struggling kelp forests and the communities fighting for their future.

🎙️ Featuring a post-screening conversation with filmmaker Natasha Benjamin and Ana Blanco (Executive Director, International Ocean Film Foundation).

🌿 The Caspar Cove Project will also be onsite to share their conservation work and ways to take action.

📅 SAT, JUN 6 • 7PM | Smith Rafael Film Center
🎟️ bit.ly/498U8hq

06/01/2026

“Memory, land, and everything in between.”

🎬 See the latest visually-stunning film by Academy Award®–nominated director Sara Dosa (FIRE OF LOVE), TIME AND WATER. From National Geographic Documentary Films, TIME AND WATER is a universal reflection on the meaning of home and what it means to be alive amid profound, epochal change.

Facing the loss of his country’s glaciers and the passing of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns to his archives to create a time capsule for what is slipping away—family, memory, time, and water.

Opens THU, JUN 4 | Smith Rafael Film Center
🎙️ Special screening with filmmaker Sara Dosa on THU, JUN 18
🎟️: bit.ly/4v06Vv6

06/01/2026

To kickstart our David Lynch series, we open with ERASERHEAD: a surreal, unsettling debut that introduces the dream logic and dark beauty of Lynch’s cinema.

Followed by a post-screening conversation led by Karen Davis (MVFF Senior Programmer Emerita)!

📆 SAT JUNE 6 @ 11AM | Smith Rafael Film Center, San Rafael
🎟️ $5 Admission: bit.ly/4us6p8E

Vid: Frederick Elmes

06/01/2026

🌈 CAFILM PRIDE begins close to home with a moving story of resilience, advocacy, and chosen community—set in San Francisco.

This powerful documentary follows Dawn and Tony as they find support and solidarity through Terry and Reverend Harry Williams at Glide Memorial Church, where care, connection, and activism become a lifeline in the fight to reclaim dignity and belonging.

🎙️ Post-screening conversation with director Laetitia Jacquart, Reverend Harry Williams, and Miss Terry of Glide Memorial Church.

In partnership with Frameline

📅 FRI, JUN 12 • 7PM | Smith Rafael Film Center
🎟️ bit.ly/4tVl2Ry

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