Releases
Special Interest Categories at the 55th San Francisco International Film Festival
3/27/2012
AFRICAN (SUB-SAHARAN)
The Double Steps, Isaki Lacuesta, Spain/Switzerland
Meanwhile in Mamelodi, Benjamin Kahlmeyer, Germany/South Africa
Sleeping Sickness, Ulrich Köhler, Germany/France/Netherlands
AFRICAN AMERICAN
Gimme the Loot, Adam Leon, USA
LUV, Sheldon Candis, USA
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Terence Nance, USA
The Waiting Room, Peter Nicks, USA
ANIMATION
Chicken with Plums, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, France/Germany/Belgium
Crulic – The Path to Beyond, Anca Damian, Romania/Poland/France
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Terence Nance, USA
Shanimation (Shorts Program)
The Storytellers Show (Shorts Program)
ARCHIVAL/RESTORATION/CLASSIC FILMS
Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple, USA
House by the River, Fritz Lang, USA
Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs) with Buster Keaton Shorts, USA
Quadrophenia, Franc Roddam, England
The Third Man, Carol Reed, England
Tommy, Ken Russell, England
ART/DESIGN/ARCHITECTURE
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, USA
The Double Steps, Isaki Lacuesta, Spain/Switzerland
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, Sam Green, USA
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, Matthew Akers, USA
The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, USA/United Arab Emirates
ASIAN
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images, Eric Baudelaire, France
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
Choked, Kim Jong-hyun, South Korea
The Day He Arrives, Hong Sangsoo, South Korea
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Ramona Diaz, USA
Golden Slumbers, Davy Chou, Cambodia/France
I Wish, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan
Life Without Principle, Johnnie To, Hong Kong
Old Dog, Pema Tseden, China/Tibet
People Mountain People Sea, Cai Shangjun, Hong Kong/China
Tokyo Waka, John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, USA/Japan
Trishna, Michael Winterbottom, England
Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed, India/USA
¡Vivan las antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky, Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile
Wu Xia, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Hong Kong/China
ASIAN AMERICAN
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Ramona Diaz, USA
CHINESE LANGUAGE
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China (Mandarin)
Life Without Principle, Johnnie To, Hong Kong (Cantonese)
People Mountain People Sea, Cai Shangjun, Hong Kong/China (Mandarin)
Wu Xia, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Hong Kong/China (Mandarin)
COMEDY
Acid Queens: Peaches & Tommy
Bonsái, Cristián Jiménez, Chile, France/Argentina/Portugal
Darling Companion, Lawrence Kasdan, USA
David OReilly Says Something
Gimme the Loot, Adam Leon, USA
Hysteria, Tanya Wexler, USA/England
The Intouchables, Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano, France
OK, Enough, Goodbye., Rania Atteh, Daniel Garcia, Lebanon/United Arab Emirates
Somebody Up There Likes Me, Bob Byington, USA
Where Do We Go Now?, Nadine Labaki, France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt
Your Sister’s Sister, Lynn Shelton, USA
DOCUMENTARY
Acting the Part (Shorts Program)
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images, Eric Baudelaire, France
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
Crulic – The Path to Beyond, Anca Damian, Romania/Poland/France
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, USA
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Ramona Diaz, USA
Ethel, Rory Kennedy, USA
Flipping the Script (Shorts Program)
Golden Slumbers, Davy Chou, Cambodia/France
Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple, USA
How to Survive a Plague, David France, USA
In My Mother’s Arms, Atia Jabarah al-Daradji, Mohamed Jabarah al-Daradji , Iraq/Netherlands/England/United Arab Emirates
Informant, Jamie Meltzer, USA
The Invisible War, Kirby Dick, USA
It’s the Earth Not the Moon, Gonçalo Tocha, Portugal
Last Call at the Oasis, Jessica Yu, USA
The Last Gladiators, Alex Gibney, USA
The Law in These Parts, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Israel/USA/Germany
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, Sam Green, USA
Made in USA (Shorts Program)
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, Matthew Akers, USA
Meanwhile in Mamelodi, Benjamin Kahlmeyer, Germany/South Africa
Off Label, Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher, USA
Only the Young, Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet, USA
Patience (After Sebald), Grant Gee, England
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema, Todd McCarthy, USA
The Queen of Versailles, Lauren Greenfield, USA/Denmark
Shanimation (Shorts Program)
The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, USA/United Arab Emirates
The Source, Maria Demopolous, Jodi Wille, USA
Step Up to the Plate, Paul Lacoste, France
Tokyo Waka, John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, USA/Japan
¡Vivan las antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky, Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile
The Waiting Room, Peter Nicks, USA
Winter Nomads, Manuel von Stürler, Switzerland/France/Germany
Women with Cows, Peter Gerdehag, Sweden
Youth Media Mashup (Shorts Program)
EASTERN EUROPEAN/BALKANS
Crulic – The Path to Beyond, Anca Damian, Romania/Poland/France
The Fourth Dimension, Harmony Korine, Aleksei Fedorchenko, Jan Kwiecinski, USA/Russia/Poland
Land of Oblivion, Michale Boganim, France/Germany/Poland/Ukraine
The Loneliest Planet, Julia Loktev, USA/Germany
Target, Alexander Zeldovich, Russia/Germany
¡Vivan las antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky, Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile
ENVIRONMENTAL
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
It’s the Earth Not the Moon, Gonçalo Tocha, Portugal
Land of Oblivion, Michale Boganim, France/Germany/Poland/Ukraine
Last Call at the Oasis, Jessica Yu, USA
Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed, India/USA
¡Vivan las antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky, Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile
EXPERIMENTAL/AVANT-GARDE
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images, Eric Baudelaire, France
Blink of an Eye (Shorts Program)
Made in USA (Shorts Program)
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Terence Nance, USA
Palaces of Pity, Gabriel Abrantes Schmidt, Portugal
FAMILY-FRIENDLY
I Wish, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan
Meanwhile in Mamelodi, Benjamin Kahlmeyer, Germany/South Africa
Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs) with Buster Keaton Shorts, USA
The Storytellers Show (Shorts Program)
Will, Ellen Perry, England/France/Turkey
Youth Media Mashup (Shorts Program)
FEMALE PERSPECTIVE
Back to Stay, Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina/Switzerland/Netherlands
Cherry, Stephen Elliott, USA
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, USA
Ethel, Rory Kennedy, USA
Farewell, My Queen, Benoît Jacquot, France/Spain
Found Memories, Júlia Murat, Brazil/Argentina/France
Goodbye, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran
Hysteria, Tanya Wexler, USA/England
The Invisible War, Kirby Dick, USA
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, Matthew Akers, USA
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA
Palaces of Pity, Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, Portugal
A Secret World, Gabriel Mariño, Mexico
17 Girls, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, France
Where Do We Go Now?, Nadine Labaki, France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt
Women with Cows, Peter Gerdehag, Sweden
FOOD
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
The Source, Maria Demopolous, Jodi Wille, USA
Step Up to the Plate, Paul Lacoste, France
GAY/LESBIAN/BI-SEXUAL/TRANSGENDER
Acid Queens: Peaches & Tommy
Cherry, Stephen Elliott, USA
Farewell, My Queen, Benoît Jacquot, France/Spain
How to Survive a Plague, David France, USA
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA
Your Sister’s Sister, Lynn Shelton, USA
HEALTH/MEDICINE/DISABILITY
How to Survive a Plague, David France, USA
Hysteria, Tanya Wexler, USA/England
The Intouchables, Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano, France
The Last Gladiators, Alex Gibney, USA
Off Label, Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher, USA
Oslo, August 31, Joachim Trier, Norway
Robot & Frank, Jake Schreier, USA
Sleeping Sickness, Ulrich Köhler, Germany/France/The Netherlands
The Waiting Room, Peter Nicks, USA
Women with Cows, Peter Gerdehag, Sweden
HORROR
Last Screening, Laurent Achard, France
IMMIGRATION
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA
A Secret World, Gabriel Mariño, Mexico
Terraferma, Emanuele Crialese, Italy/France
LATIN AMERICAN
Back to Stay, Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina/Switzerland/Netherlands
Bonsái, Cristián Jiménez, Chile/France/Argentina/Portugal
By the Fire, Alejandro Fernández Almendras, Chile/Spain/Argentina/Germany
Found Memories, Júlia Murat, Brazil/Argentina/France
Neighboring Sounds, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil
A Secret World, Gabriel Mariño, Mexico
¡Vivan las antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky, Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile
LAW/LEGAL ISSUES
Choked, Kim Jong-hyun, South Korea
Crulic – The Path to Beyond, Anca Damian, Romania/Poland/France
Goodbye, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran
Guilty, Vincent Garenq, France/Belgium
The Law in These Parts, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Israel/USA/Germany
Polisse, Maïwenn, France
LITERATURE
Bonsái, Cristián Jiménez, Chile/France/Argentina/Portugal
Chicken with Plums, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, France/Germany/Belgium
Farewell, My Queen, Benoît Jacquot, France/Spain
Headhunters, Morten Tyldum, Norway
Oslo, August 31, Joachim Trier, Norway
Patience (After Sebald), Grant Gee, England
Smugglers’ Songs, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, France
State of Cinema Address: Jonathan Lethem
Trishna, Michael Winterbottom, England
Wuthering Heights, Andrea Arnold, England
LOCAL FILMMAKERS/INTEREST
Acid Queens: Peaches & Tommy
Acting the Part (Shorts Program)
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
Blink of an Eye (Shorts Program)
Cherry, Stephen Elliott, USA
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Ramona Diaz, USA
Flipping the Script (Shorts Program)
Informant, Jamie Meltzer, USA
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, Sam Green, USA
Made in USA (Shorts Program)
Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs) with Buster Keaton Shorts, USA
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA
Porchlight
Shanimation (Shorts Program)
The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, USA/United Arab Emirates
State of Cinema Address: Jonathan Lethem
Tokyo Waka, John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, USA/Japan
The Waiting Room, Peter Nicks, USA
Twixt, Francis Ford Coppola, USA
Youth Media Mashup (Shorts Program)
MIDDLE EASTERN
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images, Eric Baudelaire, France
Chicken with Plums, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, France/Germany/Belgium
A Cube of Sugar, Reza Mirkarimi, Iran
The Exchange, Eran Kolirin, Israel, Germany
Goodbye, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran
In My Mother’s Arms, Atia Jabarah al-Daradji, Mohamed Jabarah al-Daradji, Iraq/Netherlands/England/United Arab Emirates
The Law in These Parts, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Israel/USA/Germany
OK, Enough, Goodbye., Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia, Lebanon/United Arab Emirates
Policeman, Nadav Lapid, Israel
The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, USA/United Arab Emirates
Where Do We Go Now?, Nadine Labaki, France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt
MUSIC
Acid Queens: Peaches & Tommy
Acting the Part (Shorts Program)
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Ramona Diaz, USA
Golden Slumbers, Davy Chou, Cambodia/France
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, Sam Green, USA
Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs) with Buster Keaton Shorts, USA
Quadrophenia, Franc Roddam, England
The Source, Maria Demopolous, Jodi Wille, USA
POLITICAL
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images, Eric Baudelaire, France
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
Crulic – The Path to Beyond, Anca Damian, Romania/Poland/France
Ethel, Rory Kennedy, USA
Farewell, My Queen, Benoît Jacquot, France/Spain
Goodbye, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran
Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple, USA
How to Survive a Plague, David France, USA
In My Mother’s Arms, Atia Jabarah al-Daradji, Mohamed Jabarah al-Daradji, Iraq/Netherlands/England/United Arab Emirates
Informant, Jamie Meltzer, USA
The Invisible War, Kirby Dick, USA
Last Call at the Oasis, Jessica Yu, USA
The Law in These Parts, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Israel/USA/Germany
Off Label, Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher, USA
Policeman, Nadav Lapid, Israel
Rebellion, Mathieu Kassovitz, France
The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, USA/United Arab Emirates
Smugglers’ Songs, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, France
The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Robert Guédiguian, France
Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed, India/USA
RELIGION/PHILOSOPHY/SPIRITUALITY
Only the Young, Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet, USA
The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, USA/United Arab Emirates
The Source, Maria Demopolous, Jodi Wille, USA
Tokyo Waka, John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, USA/Japan
Where Do We Go Now?, Nadine Labaki, France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt
SCIENCE/NATURE
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
It’s the Earth Not the Moon, Gonçalo Tocha, Portugal
Last Call at the Oasis, Jessica Yu, USA
Last Winter, John Shank, Belgium/France/Switzerland
Off Label, Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher, USA
Tokyo Waka, John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, USA/Japan
Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed, India/USA
¡Vivan las antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky, Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile
Winter Nomads, Manuel von Stürler, Switzerland/France/Germany
Women with Cows, Peter Gerdehag, Sweden
SENIORS
Ethel, Rory Kennedy, USA
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, USA
Found Memories, Júlia Murat, Brazil/Argentina/France
It’s the Earth Not the Moon, Gonçalo Tocha, Portugal
Robot & Frank, Jake Schreier, USA
The Waiting Room, Peter Nicks, USA
Women with Cows, Peter Gerdehag, Sweden
SEXUALITY
Back to Stay, Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina/Switzerland/Netherlands
Bonsái, Cristián Jiménez, Chile/France/Argentina/Portugal
Cherry, Stephen Elliott, USA
Compliance, Craig Zobel, USA
Dreileben – One Minute of Darkness, Christoph Hochhäusler, Germany
How to Survive a Plague, David France, USA
Hysteria, Tanya Wexler, USA/England
Only the Young, Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet, USA
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Terence Nance, USA
Palaces of Pity, Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, Portugal
A Secret World, Gabriel Mariño, Mexico
17 Girls, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, France
The Source, Maria Demopolous, Jodi Wille, USA
Trishna, Michael Winterbottom, England
Your Sister’s Sister, Lynn Shelton, USA
SILENT FILMS
Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs) with Buster Keaton Shorts, USA
SPANISH LANGUAGE
Back to Stay, Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina/Switzerland/Netherlands
Bonsái, Cristián Jiménez, Chile/France/Argentina/Portugal
By the Fire, Alejandro Fernández Almendras, Chile/Spain/Argentina/Germany
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA
A Secret World, Gabriel Mariño, Mexico
SPORTS/ATHLETICS
Flipping the Script (Shorts Program)
The Last Gladiators, Alex Gibney, USA
Meanwhile in Mamelodi, Benjamin Kahlmeyer, Germany/South Africa
Only the Young, Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet, USA
The Storytellers Show (Shorts Program)
Will, Ellen Perry, England/France/Turkey
Wu Xia, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Hong Kong/China
TECHNOLOGY
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
Last Call at the Oasis, Jessica Yu, USA
Robot & Frank, Jake Schreier, USA
WOMEN DIRECTORS
Acting the Part (Shorts Program)
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China
Back to Stay, Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina/Switzerland/Netherlands
Blink of an Eye (Shorts Program)
Chicken with Plums, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, France/Germany/Belgium
Crulic – The Path to Beyond, Anca Damian, Romania/Poland/France
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, USA
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Ramona Diaz, USA
Ethel, Rory Kennedy, USA
Flipping the Script (Shorts Program)
Found Memories, Júlia Murat, Brazil/Argentina/France
Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple, USA
Hysteria, Tanya Wexler, USA/England
Last Call at the Oasis, Jessica Yu, USA
Leave Me Like You Found Me, Adele Romanski, USA
The Loneliest Planet, Julia Loktev, USA/Germany
Made in USA (Shorts Program)
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA
OK, Enough, Goodbye., Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia, Lebanon/United Arab Emirates
Only the Young, Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet, USA
Polisse, Maïwenn, France
The Queen of Versailles, Lauren Greenfield, USA/Denmark
17 Girls, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, France
Shanimation (Shorts Program)
The Source, Maria Demopolous, Jodi Wille, USA
The Storytellers Show (Shorts Program)
Tokyo Waka, John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, USA/Japan
Where Do We Go Now?, Nadine Labaki, France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt
Will, Ellen Perry, England/France/Turkey
Wuthering Heights, Andrea Arnold, England
Your Sister’s Sister, Lynn Shelton, USA
Youth Media Mashup (Shorts Program)
YOUTH/TEEN AS SUBJECTS
Acting the Part (Shorts Program)
Back to Stay, Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina/Switzerland/Netherlands
Bonsái, Cristián Jiménez, Chile/France/Argentina/Portugal
Flipping the Script (Shorts Program)
The Giants, Bouli Lanners, Belgium/France/Luxembourg
Gimme the Loot, Adam Leon, USA
I Wish, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan
In My Mother’s Arms, Atia Jabarah al-Daradji, Mohamed Jabarah al-Daradji, Iraq/Netherlands/England/United Arab Emirates
Land of Oblivion, Michale Boganim, France/Germany/Poland/Ukraine
LUV, Sheldon Candis, USA
Meanwhile in Mamelodi, Benjamin Kahlmeyer, Germany/South Africa
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA
Only the Young, Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet, USA
Palaces of Pity, Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, Portugal
Quadrophenia, Franc Roddam, England
A Secret World, Gabriel Mariño, Mexico
17 Girls, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, France
The Storytellers Show (Shorts Program)
Summer Games, Rolando Colla, Switzerland/Italy
Terraferma, Emanuele Crialese, Italy/France
The Waiting Room, Peter Nicks, USA
Will, Ellen Perry, England/France/Turkey
Youth Media Mashup (Shorts Program)
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The Double Steps, Isaki Lacuesta, Spain/Switzerland
Meanwhile in Mamelodi, Benjamin Kahlmeyer, Germany/South Africa
Sleeping Sickness, Ulrich Köhler, Germany/France/Netherlands
AFRICAN AMERICAN
Gimme the Loot, Adam Leon, USA
LUV, Sheldon Candis, USA
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Terence Nance, USA
The Waiting Room, Peter Nicks, USA
ANIMATION
Chicken with Plums, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, France/Germany/Belgium
Crulic – The Path to Beyond, Anca Damian, Romania/Poland/France
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Terence Nance, USA
Shanimation (Shorts Program)
The Storytellers Show (Shorts Program)
ARCHIVAL/RESTORATION/CLASSIC FILMS
Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple, USA
House by the River, Fritz Lang, USA
Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs) with Buster Keaton Shorts, USA
Quadrophenia, Franc Roddam, England
The Third Man, Carol Reed, England
Tommy, Ken Russell, England
ART/DESIGN/ARCHITECTURE
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, USA
The Double Steps, Isaki Lacuesta, Spain/Switzerland
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, Sam Green, USA
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, Matthew Akers, USA
The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, USA/United Arab Emirates
ASIAN
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images, Eric Baudelaire, France
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
Choked, Kim Jong-hyun, South Korea
The Day He Arrives, Hong Sangsoo, South Korea
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Ramona Diaz, USA
Golden Slumbers, Davy Chou, Cambodia/France
I Wish, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan
Life Without Principle, Johnnie To, Hong Kong
Old Dog, Pema Tseden, China/Tibet
People Mountain People Sea, Cai Shangjun, Hong Kong/China
Tokyo Waka, John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, USA/Japan
Trishna, Michael Winterbottom, England
Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed, India/USA
¡Vivan las antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky, Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile
Wu Xia, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Hong Kong/China
ASIAN AMERICAN
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Ramona Diaz, USA
CHINESE LANGUAGE
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China (Mandarin)
Life Without Principle, Johnnie To, Hong Kong (Cantonese)
People Mountain People Sea, Cai Shangjun, Hong Kong/China (Mandarin)
Wu Xia, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Hong Kong/China (Mandarin)
COMEDY
Acid Queens: Peaches & Tommy
Bonsái, Cristián Jiménez, Chile, France/Argentina/Portugal
Darling Companion, Lawrence Kasdan, USA
David OReilly Says Something
Gimme the Loot, Adam Leon, USA
Hysteria, Tanya Wexler, USA/England
The Intouchables, Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano, France
OK, Enough, Goodbye., Rania Atteh, Daniel Garcia, Lebanon/United Arab Emirates
Somebody Up There Likes Me, Bob Byington, USA
Where Do We Go Now?, Nadine Labaki, France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt
Your Sister’s Sister, Lynn Shelton, USA
DOCUMENTARY
Acting the Part (Shorts Program)
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images, Eric Baudelaire, France
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
Crulic – The Path to Beyond, Anca Damian, Romania/Poland/France
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, USA
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Ramona Diaz, USA
Ethel, Rory Kennedy, USA
Flipping the Script (Shorts Program)
Golden Slumbers, Davy Chou, Cambodia/France
Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple, USA
How to Survive a Plague, David France, USA
In My Mother’s Arms, Atia Jabarah al-Daradji, Mohamed Jabarah al-Daradji , Iraq/Netherlands/England/United Arab Emirates
Informant, Jamie Meltzer, USA
The Invisible War, Kirby Dick, USA
It’s the Earth Not the Moon, Gonçalo Tocha, Portugal
Last Call at the Oasis, Jessica Yu, USA
The Last Gladiators, Alex Gibney, USA
The Law in These Parts, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Israel/USA/Germany
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, Sam Green, USA
Made in USA (Shorts Program)
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, Matthew Akers, USA
Meanwhile in Mamelodi, Benjamin Kahlmeyer, Germany/South Africa
Off Label, Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher, USA
Only the Young, Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet, USA
Patience (After Sebald), Grant Gee, England
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema, Todd McCarthy, USA
The Queen of Versailles, Lauren Greenfield, USA/Denmark
Shanimation (Shorts Program)
The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, USA/United Arab Emirates
The Source, Maria Demopolous, Jodi Wille, USA
Step Up to the Plate, Paul Lacoste, France
Tokyo Waka, John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, USA/Japan
¡Vivan las antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky, Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile
The Waiting Room, Peter Nicks, USA
Winter Nomads, Manuel von Stürler, Switzerland/France/Germany
Women with Cows, Peter Gerdehag, Sweden
Youth Media Mashup (Shorts Program)
EASTERN EUROPEAN/BALKANS
Crulic – The Path to Beyond, Anca Damian, Romania/Poland/France
The Fourth Dimension, Harmony Korine, Aleksei Fedorchenko, Jan Kwiecinski, USA/Russia/Poland
Land of Oblivion, Michale Boganim, France/Germany/Poland/Ukraine
The Loneliest Planet, Julia Loktev, USA/Germany
Target, Alexander Zeldovich, Russia/Germany
¡Vivan las antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky, Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile
ENVIRONMENTAL
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
It’s the Earth Not the Moon, Gonçalo Tocha, Portugal
Land of Oblivion, Michale Boganim, France/Germany/Poland/Ukraine
Last Call at the Oasis, Jessica Yu, USA
Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed, India/USA
¡Vivan las antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky, Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile
EXPERIMENTAL/AVANT-GARDE
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images, Eric Baudelaire, France
Blink of an Eye (Shorts Program)
Made in USA (Shorts Program)
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Terence Nance, USA
Palaces of Pity, Gabriel Abrantes Schmidt, Portugal
FAMILY-FRIENDLY
I Wish, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan
Meanwhile in Mamelodi, Benjamin Kahlmeyer, Germany/South Africa
Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs) with Buster Keaton Shorts, USA
The Storytellers Show (Shorts Program)
Will, Ellen Perry, England/France/Turkey
Youth Media Mashup (Shorts Program)
FEMALE PERSPECTIVE
Back to Stay, Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina/Switzerland/Netherlands
Cherry, Stephen Elliott, USA
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, USA
Ethel, Rory Kennedy, USA
Farewell, My Queen, Benoît Jacquot, France/Spain
Found Memories, Júlia Murat, Brazil/Argentina/France
Goodbye, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran
Hysteria, Tanya Wexler, USA/England
The Invisible War, Kirby Dick, USA
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, Matthew Akers, USA
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA
Palaces of Pity, Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, Portugal
A Secret World, Gabriel Mariño, Mexico
17 Girls, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, France
Where Do We Go Now?, Nadine Labaki, France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt
Women with Cows, Peter Gerdehag, Sweden
FOOD
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
The Source, Maria Demopolous, Jodi Wille, USA
Step Up to the Plate, Paul Lacoste, France
GAY/LESBIAN/BI-SEXUAL/TRANSGENDER
Acid Queens: Peaches & Tommy
Cherry, Stephen Elliott, USA
Farewell, My Queen, Benoît Jacquot, France/Spain
How to Survive a Plague, David France, USA
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA
Your Sister’s Sister, Lynn Shelton, USA
HEALTH/MEDICINE/DISABILITY
How to Survive a Plague, David France, USA
Hysteria, Tanya Wexler, USA/England
The Intouchables, Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano, France
The Last Gladiators, Alex Gibney, USA
Off Label, Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher, USA
Oslo, August 31, Joachim Trier, Norway
Robot & Frank, Jake Schreier, USA
Sleeping Sickness, Ulrich Köhler, Germany/France/The Netherlands
The Waiting Room, Peter Nicks, USA
Women with Cows, Peter Gerdehag, Sweden
HORROR
Last Screening, Laurent Achard, France
IMMIGRATION
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA
A Secret World, Gabriel Mariño, Mexico
Terraferma, Emanuele Crialese, Italy/France
LATIN AMERICAN
Back to Stay, Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina/Switzerland/Netherlands
Bonsái, Cristián Jiménez, Chile/France/Argentina/Portugal
By the Fire, Alejandro Fernández Almendras, Chile/Spain/Argentina/Germany
Found Memories, Júlia Murat, Brazil/Argentina/France
Neighboring Sounds, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil
A Secret World, Gabriel Mariño, Mexico
¡Vivan las antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky, Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile
LAW/LEGAL ISSUES
Choked, Kim Jong-hyun, South Korea
Crulic – The Path to Beyond, Anca Damian, Romania/Poland/France
Goodbye, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran
Guilty, Vincent Garenq, France/Belgium
The Law in These Parts, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Israel/USA/Germany
Polisse, Maïwenn, France
LITERATURE
Bonsái, Cristián Jiménez, Chile/France/Argentina/Portugal
Chicken with Plums, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, France/Germany/Belgium
Farewell, My Queen, Benoît Jacquot, France/Spain
Headhunters, Morten Tyldum, Norway
Oslo, August 31, Joachim Trier, Norway
Patience (After Sebald), Grant Gee, England
Smugglers’ Songs, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, France
State of Cinema Address: Jonathan Lethem
Trishna, Michael Winterbottom, England
Wuthering Heights, Andrea Arnold, England
LOCAL FILMMAKERS/INTEREST
Acid Queens: Peaches & Tommy
Acting the Part (Shorts Program)
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
Blink of an Eye (Shorts Program)
Cherry, Stephen Elliott, USA
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Ramona Diaz, USA
Flipping the Script (Shorts Program)
Informant, Jamie Meltzer, USA
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, Sam Green, USA
Made in USA (Shorts Program)
Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs) with Buster Keaton Shorts, USA
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA
Porchlight
Shanimation (Shorts Program)
The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, USA/United Arab Emirates
State of Cinema Address: Jonathan Lethem
Tokyo Waka, John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, USA/Japan
The Waiting Room, Peter Nicks, USA
Twixt, Francis Ford Coppola, USA
Youth Media Mashup (Shorts Program)
MIDDLE EASTERN
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images, Eric Baudelaire, France
Chicken with Plums, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, France/Germany/Belgium
A Cube of Sugar, Reza Mirkarimi, Iran
The Exchange, Eran Kolirin, Israel, Germany
Goodbye, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran
In My Mother’s Arms, Atia Jabarah al-Daradji, Mohamed Jabarah al-Daradji, Iraq/Netherlands/England/United Arab Emirates
The Law in These Parts, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Israel/USA/Germany
OK, Enough, Goodbye., Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia, Lebanon/United Arab Emirates
Policeman, Nadav Lapid, Israel
The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, USA/United Arab Emirates
Where Do We Go Now?, Nadine Labaki, France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt
MUSIC
Acid Queens: Peaches & Tommy
Acting the Part (Shorts Program)
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Ramona Diaz, USA
Golden Slumbers, Davy Chou, Cambodia/France
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, Sam Green, USA
Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs) with Buster Keaton Shorts, USA
Quadrophenia, Franc Roddam, England
The Source, Maria Demopolous, Jodi Wille, USA
POLITICAL
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images, Eric Baudelaire, France
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
Crulic – The Path to Beyond, Anca Damian, Romania/Poland/France
Ethel, Rory Kennedy, USA
Farewell, My Queen, Benoît Jacquot, France/Spain
Goodbye, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran
Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple, USA
How to Survive a Plague, David France, USA
In My Mother’s Arms, Atia Jabarah al-Daradji, Mohamed Jabarah al-Daradji, Iraq/Netherlands/England/United Arab Emirates
Informant, Jamie Meltzer, USA
The Invisible War, Kirby Dick, USA
Last Call at the Oasis, Jessica Yu, USA
The Law in These Parts, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Israel/USA/Germany
Off Label, Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher, USA
Policeman, Nadav Lapid, Israel
Rebellion, Mathieu Kassovitz, France
The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, USA/United Arab Emirates
Smugglers’ Songs, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, France
The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Robert Guédiguian, France
Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed, India/USA
RELIGION/PHILOSOPHY/SPIRITUALITY
Only the Young, Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet, USA
The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, USA/United Arab Emirates
The Source, Maria Demopolous, Jodi Wille, USA
Tokyo Waka, John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, USA/Japan
Where Do We Go Now?, Nadine Labaki, France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt
SCIENCE/NATURE
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
It’s the Earth Not the Moon, Gonçalo Tocha, Portugal
Last Call at the Oasis, Jessica Yu, USA
Last Winter, John Shank, Belgium/France/Switzerland
Off Label, Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher, USA
Tokyo Waka, John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, USA/Japan
Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed, India/USA
¡Vivan las antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky, Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile
Winter Nomads, Manuel von Stürler, Switzerland/France/Germany
Women with Cows, Peter Gerdehag, Sweden
SENIORS
Ethel, Rory Kennedy, USA
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, USA
Found Memories, Júlia Murat, Brazil/Argentina/France
It’s the Earth Not the Moon, Gonçalo Tocha, Portugal
Robot & Frank, Jake Schreier, USA
The Waiting Room, Peter Nicks, USA
Women with Cows, Peter Gerdehag, Sweden
SEXUALITY
Back to Stay, Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina/Switzerland/Netherlands
Bonsái, Cristián Jiménez, Chile/France/Argentina/Portugal
Cherry, Stephen Elliott, USA
Compliance, Craig Zobel, USA
Dreileben – One Minute of Darkness, Christoph Hochhäusler, Germany
How to Survive a Plague, David France, USA
Hysteria, Tanya Wexler, USA/England
Only the Young, Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet, USA
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Terence Nance, USA
Palaces of Pity, Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, Portugal
A Secret World, Gabriel Mariño, Mexico
17 Girls, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, France
The Source, Maria Demopolous, Jodi Wille, USA
Trishna, Michael Winterbottom, England
Your Sister’s Sister, Lynn Shelton, USA
SILENT FILMS
Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs) with Buster Keaton Shorts, USA
SPANISH LANGUAGE
Back to Stay, Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina/Switzerland/Netherlands
Bonsái, Cristián Jiménez, Chile/France/Argentina/Portugal
By the Fire, Alejandro Fernández Almendras, Chile/Spain/Argentina/Germany
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA
A Secret World, Gabriel Mariño, Mexico
SPORTS/ATHLETICS
Flipping the Script (Shorts Program)
The Last Gladiators, Alex Gibney, USA
Meanwhile in Mamelodi, Benjamin Kahlmeyer, Germany/South Africa
Only the Young, Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet, USA
The Storytellers Show (Shorts Program)
Will, Ellen Perry, England/France/Turkey
Wu Xia, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Hong Kong/China
TECHNOLOGY
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
Last Call at the Oasis, Jessica Yu, USA
Robot & Frank, Jake Schreier, USA
WOMEN DIRECTORS
Acting the Part (Shorts Program)
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China
Back to Stay, Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina/Switzerland/Netherlands
Blink of an Eye (Shorts Program)
Chicken with Plums, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, France/Germany/Belgium
Crulic – The Path to Beyond, Anca Damian, Romania/Poland/France
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, USA
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Ramona Diaz, USA
Ethel, Rory Kennedy, USA
Flipping the Script (Shorts Program)
Found Memories, Júlia Murat, Brazil/Argentina/France
Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple, USA
Hysteria, Tanya Wexler, USA/England
Last Call at the Oasis, Jessica Yu, USA
Leave Me Like You Found Me, Adele Romanski, USA
The Loneliest Planet, Julia Loktev, USA/Germany
Made in USA (Shorts Program)
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA
OK, Enough, Goodbye., Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia, Lebanon/United Arab Emirates
Only the Young, Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet, USA
Polisse, Maïwenn, France
The Queen of Versailles, Lauren Greenfield, USA/Denmark
17 Girls, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, France
Shanimation (Shorts Program)
The Source, Maria Demopolous, Jodi Wille, USA
The Storytellers Show (Shorts Program)
Tokyo Waka, John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, USA/Japan
Where Do We Go Now?, Nadine Labaki, France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt
Will, Ellen Perry, England/France/Turkey
Wuthering Heights, Andrea Arnold, England
Your Sister’s Sister, Lynn Shelton, USA
Youth Media Mashup (Shorts Program)
YOUTH/TEEN AS SUBJECTS
Acting the Part (Shorts Program)
Back to Stay, Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina/Switzerland/Netherlands
Bonsái, Cristián Jiménez, Chile/France/Argentina/Portugal
Flipping the Script (Shorts Program)
The Giants, Bouli Lanners, Belgium/France/Luxembourg
Gimme the Loot, Adam Leon, USA
I Wish, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan
In My Mother’s Arms, Atia Jabarah al-Daradji, Mohamed Jabarah al-Daradji, Iraq/Netherlands/England/United Arab Emirates
Land of Oblivion, Michale Boganim, France/Germany/Poland/Ukraine
LUV, Sheldon Candis, USA
Meanwhile in Mamelodi, Benjamin Kahlmeyer, Germany/South Africa
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA
Only the Young, Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet, USA
Palaces of Pity, Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, Portugal
Quadrophenia, Franc Roddam, England
A Secret World, Gabriel Mariño, Mexico
17 Girls, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, France
The Storytellers Show (Shorts Program)
Summer Games, Rolando Colla, Switzerland/Italy
Terraferma, Emanuele Crialese, Italy/France
The Waiting Room, Peter Nicks, USA
Will, Ellen Perry, England/France/Turkey
Youth Media Mashup (Shorts Program)
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55th San Francisco International Film Festival
The 55th San Francisco International Film Festival runs April 19–May 3 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, the Castro Theatre, SF Film Society Cinema and SFMOMA in San Francisco and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. Held each spring for 15 days, the International is an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and innovation in one of the country’s most beautiful cities, featuring 200 films and live events, 14 juried awards and $70,000 in cash prizes, upwards of 100 participating filmmaker guests and diverse and engaged audiences with more than 70,000 people in attendance.
San Francisco Film Society
Building on a legacy of more than 50 years of bringing the best in world cinema to the Bay Area, the San Francisco Film Society is a national leader in exhibition, education and filmmaker services.
The Film Society presents 365 days of exhibition each year, reaching a total audience of 130,000 people. Its acclaimed education program introduces international, independent and documentary cinema and media literacy to more than 15,000 teachers and students and presents 100 classes and workshops annually. Through Filmmaker360, the Film Society’s filmmaker services program, essential creative and business services and funding totaling millions of dollars are provided to deserving filmmakers of all levels.
The Film Society seeks to elevate all aspects of film culture, offering a wide range of activities that engage emotions, inspire action, change perceptions and advance knowledge. A 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation, it is largely donor and member supported. Patronage and membership provides discounted prices, access to grants and residencies, private events and a wealth of other benefits.
For more information visit sffs.org.
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