Our girl Minnie Goetze would be in her mid-20s now, if movie time followed the logic of real time. Instead, the central character in the 2015 film The Diary of a Teenage Girl is forever 15 in 1976 San Francisco, figuring out who she is in the context of sex, family and her artistic dreams.

Even a decade after its release, Marielle Heller’s debut film remains a rare thing: a girl’s coming-of-age story that a) acknowledges its protagonist’s sexual desires; and b) doesn’t punish her for acting on them. These would be reasons enough to revisit the movie, but a Nov. 4 screening at the Roxie , co-presented by the San Francisco Film Commission (Film SF) and SFFILM, further celebrates Diary of a Teenage Girl ’s relationship to San Francisco.

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