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Sonoma International Film Festival

03.19.2025

Exquisite food experiences, extraordinary wine and cocktail/mocktails, exceptional films, and super fun parties (hello, Studio 54 Disco!): Spring into Sonoma March 19 - 23 for the Sonoma International Film Festival (SIFF). This year’s festival entertainment lineup is incredible—from travel documentaries to feature films with stars like Lily Gladstone, Bowen Yang, and Gabriel Garcia Bernal. And it all happens in one of the West's most beautiful places: Sonoma.

Journey with Meg Ray (founder of the Bay Area’s famed Miette Patisserie) to Sweden’s truly remote and magical island of Rödlöga, where she’ll help save a beloved café and bakery, all documented in this beautiful film, appropriately titled Sweet Störy.

See a newly imagined version of Ang Lee’s 1993 classic, The Wedding Banquet, with Joan Chen, Lily Gladstone, and Saturday Night Live’s Bowen Yang.

Don’t miss the Studio 54 Disco Party at Hopmonk (and yes, you should dress “disco”) and check out other events and parties and food experiences around town.

Drop in at pop-ins: Sonoma’s local restaurants will have small bites to pair with Sonoma wines.

Sonoma International Film Festival

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