San Francisco Frozen Film Festival 2023

The San Francisco Frozen Film Festival Is Back In-person For Its 17th Year Featuring an Exciting New Outdoor Film Venue in San Francisco!

Known for its nearly two-decade celebration of San Francisco and International Film, the local staple of the SF Art community returns in person for their annual summer celebration of film. Shouting literally from the rooftops downtown (where films will literally screen on top of buildings and at their opening night party) the 17th Annual San Francisco Frozen Film Festival (SFFFF) runs from July 12th to the 16th.

Previously awarded Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World by Moviemaker Magazine, audiences can celebrate the acclaimed programs lounging comfortably in this year’s exciting new outdoor film venue, The Cut Outdoor Cinema! This rare rooftop outdoor theater is brought to the public by SFFFF2023 in partnership with Noise Pop, a Bay Area event producer who has been championing independent music and culture since 1993.

The Frozen Film Festival (which predates Disney’s film) showcases one of the best annual international film programs to come to SF annually. With the closure of so many local partners (including Piano Fight) please come and support the local filmmakers as they return in person in a safe-outdoor live venue. In addition to bringing the best selection of new film traveling the global film festival circuit SFFFF2023 showcases over 50 local Bay Area films and filmmakers as part of the film festival's nonprofit programming mission.

SFFFF2023 brings an epic collection of films from over 50 countries, including inspiring feature and short documentary films, mind-bending experimental films, award-winning animation program, comedy shorts, LGBTQ+ films, and an amazing collection of films made and produced in the Bay Area by students and local artists, many will be attending for live audience talks. Including the highly anticipated declassified UFO footage documentary Phoenix Incident that other galaxies don’t want you to see, SFFFF2023 has it all!
Our award winning 25$ festival pass that gets you into every film plus the opening night party now allows you to screen an additional 100 films online! Come mingle with local filmmakers and check out Tony Hawk in the skate and surf feature film, Humanity Stoked before topping it off with a night of animation and some international short documentary films and comedic films.