SF Intl Animation Festival (2008)
One of the most fertile and creative practices in cinema and television, animation occupies a pressure point between artistic, experimental, commercial and industrial media. The four-day San Francisco International Animation Festival celebrates San Francisco’s prominence as a hub for one of the most creative forms in cinema. The 2008 edition was held November 13–16, 2008.

Sita Sings the Blues
Nina Paley (USA, 2008)
Betty Boop meets bhangra in Nina Paley’s celebrated first feature-length film, a beautifully animated visual feast of East meets West that has delighted audiences around the world. Read more...
November 13, 2008
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema

The Best of Annecy 2008
Shorts Program
Best of Annecy 2008 presents a selection of the best shorts to have appeared this year at Annecy International Animated Film Festival, the most important festival for animation in Europe. Read more...
November 14, 2008
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema

Locomotion
Shorts Program
The short films in this program bring a fascinating and fascinated eye to the mechanics of movement. Read more...
November 14, 2008
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema

Play It by Eye
Play It by Eye reprises the San Francisco International Animation Festival’s popular survey of the best recently completed animated music videos Read more...
November 14, 2008
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema

Play: The Art of the Animated Film Title
Shorts Program
Film title experts Design Films offer an entertaining showcase of animation and motion design in the modern era. Clips from more than 20 film title sequences will be shown. Read more...
November 15, 2008
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema

Encyclopedia Pictura
Shorts Program
This shorts program features wildly creative music videos and animated, live action and hybrid pieces created by the enigmatic Bay Area collective known as Encyclopedia Pictura. Read more...
November 15, 2008
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema

Control Freaks
Shorts Program
Are we masters of our own destinies? The short films in this program dance around the question, and ultimately evade it. Read more...
November 15, 2008
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema

Waltz with Bashir
Ari Folman (Israel/France, 2008)
Ari Folman’s animated Waltz with Bashir is a direct and uncompromising look at the effects of war, and one of the most inventive and powerful films of the year. Read more...
November 15–16, 2008
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema

Idiots and Angels
Bill Plympton (USA, 2008)
Indie animation king Bill Plympton’s newest feature is a dark and humorous allegory about morally bankrupt men. Read more...
November 15–16, 2009
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema

Gene Deitch: A Retrospective of Films for Children
Shorts Program
This child-friendly program of work by maverick animator Gene Deitch includes adaptations of stories by Maurice Sendak, an Oscar-winning classic, and some of Deitch’s own favorites and surprises.
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November 16, 2008
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema















