WINNER, AUDIENCE AWARD, 2025 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

“One of the most moving, most hilarious, most tragic, most wonderful works of non-fiction filmmaking in many years.” – Jason Gorber, POV Magazine

Q&A with director Tony Benna & Executive Producer Lee Einhorn, after the March 11 & 13 shows!

Co-Presented by UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

“Get a fucking colonoscopy” we’re told at the end of ANDRÉ IS AN IDIOT, a wildly entertaining documentary collaboration between director Tony Benna and his friend, the title character. When André Ricciardi—a successful San Francisco advertising executive—learns that he has stage 4 colon cancer at age 52, he regrets he waited too long for a procedure that might have saved his life. But he also resolves to document his final journey in his own way—with his acerbic sense of humor and absurdist temperament (punctuated by Benna’s uproarious stop-motion animation), often pointed at himself and his…