The 51-year-old actor took to Twitter to share the news and said that he is excited to meet his friend filmmaker Brett Ratner.
"Honoured to be at at the 60th #SanFrancisco Int Film festival and looking forward to meeting my friend @BrettRatner. Also memories in SanFran," Shah Rukh tweeted.
Ratner is one of the co-founders of RatPac-Dune Entertainment, a prolific film production and financing company.
One of the oldest film festivals of the US, SFIFF gets underway on April 5, at the Castro Theatre with the '90s-set dramedy "Landline," director Gillian Robespierre's follow-up to her praised indie "Obvious Child."