PAST EXHIBITIONS

Highlighted film titles link to SFIFF pages that contain film synopses, credits, print sources, running times and countries of origin.

Boxers and Ballerinas
Shot in three countries over a two year period, Boxers and Ballerinas explores the US-Cuba conflict thru the eyes of four youths--a boxer and a ballerina in Havana and Santiago de Cuba and a boxer and a ballerina exiled in Miami.
SFFS Exhibition: 2005 SFIFF
Attendance: 1010
Youth Ed Attendance: 561
 
Brick Lane
A naive young Muslim woman moves from rural Bangladesh to London in this elegant adaptation of Monica Ali’s debut novel, one of Britain’s most acclaimed works of fiction in recent years.
SFFS Exhibition: 2008 SFIFF
Attendance: 514
Website: www.sonyclassics.com/bricklane/
Co-presenter: Center for Asian American Media
 
Calavera Highway
When Armando and Carlos Peña hit the road to return their mother Rose’s ashes to Texas, they embark on a profound journey, confronting a past haunted by her estrangement from her family as well as the specter of their missing father.
SFFS Exhibition: 2008 SFIFF
Attendance: 509
Website: www.calaverahighway.org/Home.html
 
L’ Esquive
“I wanted to show a different way of looking at kids in the projects,” Abdellatif Kechiche says of this courageous teenage romance…
SFFS Exhibition: 2004 SFIFF
Attendance: 838

French Girl
“So which are you: French, African, Moroccan or Arab?” This loaded question, posed to the titular ten-year-old of Souad El-Bouhati’s wonderfully assured first feature, has no easy answer, for although young Sofia was born in France and fully embraces her Gallic origins, her North African parents prefer that their headstrong daughter retain the traits and traditions of their homeland.
SFFS Exhibition: 2009 SFIFF
Attendance: 1,352
Website:   http://www.widemanagement.com/fiche.php?id=790

James' Journey to Jerusalem
James, a Zulu farmer on a Christian pilgrimage to Jerusalem, is arrested as an illegal migrant worker when he arrives in Israel.
SFFS Exhibition: 2004 SFIFF
Attendance: 337
Website: www.zeitgeistfilms.com/jamesjourney/

Khamsa
Karim Dridi creates a vivid picture of Roma life in an enclave on the outskirts of Marseille. Thirteen-year-old Marco, a runaway from foster care, prefers this place of hard living and big, messy families to life on the outside.
SFFS Exhibition: 2009 SFIFF
Attendance: 553
Website:   http://www.khamsa-lefilm.com/
 
Strangers in the Neighborhood
Set within the rarefied world of pigeon racing, Bisschops’s remarkable documentary shows a fascinating microcosm of the racial tensions that currently plague the Netherlands and offers the beautiful sight of pigeons in flight as a metaphor for escape.
SFFS Exhibition: 2006 SFIFF
Attendance: 274
 
They Chose China
Filmmaker Wang unearths rare and fascinating footage that reveals the story of individuals who, out of loathing for McCarthy’s America, chose a people they viewed as peace loving and who repaid their admiration until the tide turned with the Cultural Revolution.
SFFS Exhibition: 2006 SFIFF
Attendance: 464
 
Viva Cuba
Director Juan Carlos Cremata relates his road movie fairy tale with a disarming sincerity that is always involving and engaging. Taking elements from the reality of daily life, he weaves a heartfelt fable of children, which gives it its great charm.
SFFS Exhibition: 2006 SFIFF
Attendance: 1219
Youth Ed Attendance: 538
Website: www.vivacuba-lefilm.com/


FISCAL SPONSORSHIP

HIghlighted film titles link to sffs.org "Current Projects" pages, alphabetically listing SFFS fiscally sponsored films, containing synopses and website links where available. Below each title is the filmmaker's name.

Alaska Far Away: The New Deal Pioneers of the Matanuska Colony
Joan Juster

Ambos Nogales
Luisa Greenfield

American Dreams
Ron Rodgers

Chinese Couplet
Felicia Lowe

Immersion
Richard Levien

An Imagined Country
Marilyn Mulford

King Philip’s War (Aka Aldermans Story)
George Csicsery

Prodigal Daughter
Mabel Valdiviezo

To Save A Life
Steven Pressman



RESOURCES

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