September 9–11, 2022 · Sonora, California
The inaugural Sonora Film Festival took the Sierra Nevada foothills by storm — four films spanning four nations, bound together by movement, rhythm, and the kind of screen energy you feel in your bones. From the rain-soaked streets of Mumbai to the dusty crossroads of the Mississippi Delta.
Two legendary revolutionaries forge an unlikely brotherhood in British-ruled India. S.S. Rajamouli's three-hour adrenaline tsunami is the grandest action spectacle of the century — and home to the single greatest dance sequence ever committed to film.
A young Juilliard student abandons classical guitar to seek out a lost Robert Johnson song from a blues harmonica legend. Walter Hill's film builds to a climactic guitar duel against Steve Vai — the most jaw-dropping face-melting six-string battle ever recorded.
A lonely Brooklyn bartender tends a mob money-drop bar and becomes entangled in a robbery gone wrong. Tom Hardy delivers a career-defining, almost wordless performance in this slow-burn crime thriller — Gandolfini's final film, and one of his very best.
A boy loses all his hair after a terrifying experience and mixes a magical peanut butter formula — one that works far, far too well. A fever-dream Canadian children's film of such staggering, confident weirdness that it permanently rewires whatever part of the brain handles reality.
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Founded in 2022 in the Sierra Nevada foothills, the Sonora Film Festival is Northern California's premier film festival, featuring the finest selection of overlooked, forgotten, underrated films—hand selected by our panel of experts.