San Diego Underground Film Festival

San Diego Underground Film Festival San Diego Underground Film Festival is San Diego's premier showcase of experimentation in film, video

Thanks for an amazing weekend! Huge thanks to our talented filmmakers and the Suraj Center team for having us!!*Schedule...
05/04/2026

Thanks for an amazing weekend! Huge thanks to our talented filmmakers and the Suraj Center team for having us!!

*Schedule update: "Eight Bridges" is now playing on Tuesday night.

We are so excited to screen in our shorts competition, The Phalanx directed by Ben Balcom !! Come see it Sunday May 3rd...
05/01/2026

We are so excited to screen in our shorts competition, The Phalanx directed by Ben Balcom !! Come see it Sunday May 3rd at UCSD’s

Letters from the Ceresco community trace the fragility of harmony, the dream of life in association, the frictions that give way to fracture. Members of the phalanx drift apart, lingering in private corners, suspended in speculative time.

We are so excited to screen in our shorts competition, Beach Day directed by Damian Gong !! Come see it Sunday May 3rd ...
05/01/2026

We are so excited to screen in our shorts competition, Beach Day directed by Damian Gong !! Come see it Sunday May 3rd at !!!

Fish, bodybuilders, and soccer games re-materialize in a boy’s mind. Inspired by childhood videos and transitioning, “Beach Day” is a collage of past and present, digital and analog, and imagined and real. Digitized camcorder video, rotoscoped animations, and narrated anecdotes merge with ambient noises to create an unraveling of time.

We are so excited to screen in our shorts competition, Air directed by Alexander Barancheyev !!! Come see it tomorrow, ...
05/01/2026

We are so excited to screen in our shorts competition, Air directed by Alexander Barancheyev !!! Come see it tomorrow, Saturday May 2nd at UCSD’s !!

A selection of memories, dreams, and conversations from different places and of different people. A film-diary that jumps through space and time, and finds emotional connections between various sceneries and situations, which ordinarily would not exist together.

We are so excited to screen in our shorts competition, Urine Trouble directed by Ella Berke !! Come see it Sunday May 3...
05/01/2026

We are so excited to screen in our shorts competition, Urine Trouble directed by Ella Berke !! Come see it Sunday May 3rd at UCSD’s !!

An archaic action film. Dancing while un******ng on the way to go p*e, all to the rhythm of a soundtrack as disjointed as its images.

We are excited to screen in our Shorts Competition, Embodied directed by Samuel Wright Smith !!! Come see it Sunday May...
05/01/2026

We are excited to screen in our Shorts Competition, Embodied directed by Samuel Wright Smith !!! Come see it Sunday May 3rd at 11am!!

A collective oil pastel-animated reflection on death, as shared by individuals facing the end of life aided by psychedelic-assisted care.

We are so excited to screen in our Shorts Competition, My Structuralist Film directed by Angelo Madsen !!! See it Sunda...
05/01/2026

We are so excited to screen in our Shorts Competition, My Structuralist Film directed by Angelo Madsen !!! See it Sunday May 3rd at 11am

How shall I cater best to your desire for me to be visible? Set up as a confessional-cum-guided meditation, My Structuralist Film uses performance artist Tehching Hsieh’s One Year Performance (“Time Clock Piece”) as a framework to illustrate the filmmaker’s (presumable) insides. How thoroughly should a trans body want or need to be visible? On what terms is the filmmaker obligated to narrativize, perform, or even fabricate visibility for the sake of an audience? Considering the limits and limitations of disclosure, this project positions the act of looking not as an offering or an exchange, but as an unyielding neoliberal, capitalist thirst to both consume and be inside the trans body.

We are so excited to screen in our Shorts Competition, Half Halt directed by Sofia Theodore-Pierce !!! Come see it Sun...
05/01/2026

We are so excited to screen in our Shorts Competition, Half Halt directed by Sofia Theodore-Pierce !!! Come see it Sunday May 3rd

Interruptions, breaks, skips, unifications and poetry are showcased in Sofia Theodore-Pierce’s short.

SDUFF 11 kicks off tomorrow with three incredible feature films! We’re very excited to present these at the on the UCSD...
05/01/2026

SDUFF 11 kicks off tomorrow with three incredible feature films! We’re very excited to present these at the on the UCSD campus!

Tickets linked in our bio as well as the full festival schedule!

We are so excited to screen in our Shorts Competition, This Immeasurable Sea directed by Alex Broadwell .broadwell !! Co...
05/01/2026

We are so excited to screen in our Shorts Competition, This Immeasurable Sea directed by Alex Broadwell .broadwell !! Come see it Saturday May 2nd 11am!!! Free!! at UC San Diego!

An author finishes one book and plans another, aiming to convey her disillusionment with common understandings of time. An interleaved puzzle-box collage of literary and cinematic echoes, amid fluid landscapes of a western coast.

We are so excited to announce the wonderful Jury for our Feature Competition!! First up is Blair Davis, Ph.D.!!! Blair D...
04/29/2026

We are so excited to announce the wonderful Jury for our Feature Competition!! First up is Blair Davis, Ph.D.!!!

Blair Davis has served for four years as Director of Alumni Relations for the School of Arts and Humanities at UC San Diego. She holds a B.A. in Public Policy from Washington and Lee University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture from UC Santa Barbara. She has twenty years of experience in the classroom, teaching art history in the UC, California State University, and community college systems.
In her role as Director of Alumni Relations, Blair has created a successful series of alumni events for the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts which amplify the achievements of UC San Diego’s alumni and connect student filmmakers with industry experts and career mentoring opportunities. This programming highlights the important legacy of student filmmaking at UC San Diego and its exciting future at the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts.

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