The 29th Sonma Film Fest wrapped March 29 with the Spanish film Maspalomas winning the Grand Jury Award for best narrative feature.

Directors Aitor Arregi and Jose Mari Goenaga’s moving queer film represents authentic depiction of an elder man confronting personal and physical crisis at the onset of the COVID pandemic.

My Book:

Gay Directors, Gay Films? By Emanuel Levy (Columbia University Press)

Over five days, SIFF presented 104 films from 37 countries, mixed with filmmaker talks, panels, and culinary pop-ups in the picturesque Northern California town.

Filmmaker and artist Julian Schnabel accepted the Sonoma Film Fest Visionary Artist Award with screening of his film In the Hand of Dante, with special guest Tom Waits.