Reality: We’re at a juncture where more people than usual seem to be dangerously out of touch with it, while others wish it weren’t staring them in the face. There’s a lot of bad news out there that is important to be aware of, though you might also feel you’re suffering from overexposure to it already. Escapism beckons.

That might seem to work against the timing of DocFest, aka, the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, whose 24th edition runs this Thu/29 through June 8. But as ever, this longest-running offshoot of SF Indiefest casts a wide net, well beyond the usual nonfiction cinema realms of current events and politics. You’ll certainly find some of the latter in its 2025 program… but also everything from Afghani song and ecological kayak-tivism to bathing beauties and Qatari stre

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