The Belko Experiment premiered at the 41st Sundance Film Festival.
 It was followed four years later by the San Francisco International Film Festival, held in March 1957, which emphasized feature-length dramatic films
Films shown at the 2019 event included the controversial dark tale The Nightingale, US comedy Corporate Animals, Lulu Wang's The Farewell (which won the Audience Award) and Sophie Hyde's film based on Emma Jane Unsworth's novel about female friendship, Animals

