*Bay Area Filmmakers
NARRATIVE FEATURES
The Amazing Catfish, Claudia Sainte-Luce, Mexico
The Blue Wave, Zeynep Dadak and Merve Kayan, Turkey/Germany/Netherland/Greece
Difret, Zeresenay Berhane Mehari, Ethiopia
The Dune, Yossi Aviram, France/Israel
History of Fear, Benjamín Naishtat, Argentina/France/Germany/Uruguay/Qatar
Manos Sucias, Josef Wladyka, USA/Colombia
Of Horses and Men, Benedikt Erlingsson, Iceland/Germany
Salvation Army, Abdellah Taïa, Morocco
South Is Nothing, Fabio Mollo, Italy/France
Trap Street, Vivian Qu, China
White Shadow, Noaz Deshe, Italy/Germany/Tanzania
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES
Coast of Death, Lois Patiño, Spain
* The Last Season, Sara Dosa, USA
* The Overnighters, Jesse Moss, USA
Return to Homs, Talal Derki, Syria/Germany
Soul Food Stories, Tonislav Hristov, Bulgaria/Finland
Stop the Pounding Heart, Roberto Minervini, USA/Italy/Belgium
Three Letters from China, Luc Schaedler, Switzerland
We Come as Friends, Hubert Sauper, France/Austria
DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
* Barn Dance, John Haptas, Kris Samuelson and Amy Seiwert, USA
* The High Five, Michael Jacobs, USA
Re: Awakenings, Bill Morrison, USA
* Santa Cruz del Islote, Luke Lorentzen, USA/Colombia
Zima, Christina Picchi, Russia
NARRATIVE SHORTS
* Angels, Jim Granato, USA
The Birds’ Blessing, Serge Mirzbekiants, Belgium
Deserted, Yoav Hornung, Israel
Little Block of Cement with Disheveled Hair Containing the Sea, Jorge López Navarrete, Spain
Mystery, Chema García Ibarra, Spain
* No One But Lydia, Rob Richert, USA
So You’ve Grown Attached, Kate Tsang, USA
ANIMATED SHORTS
A Very Large Increase in the Size, Amount, or Importance of Something Over a Very Short Period of Time, Max Hattler, Russia/UK/Germany
* Cosmic Flower Unfolding, Benjamin Ridgway, USA
Drunker Than a Skunk, Bill Plympton, USA
Gloria Victoria, Theodore Ushev, Canada
Little Vulvah and Her Clitoral Awareness, Sara Koppel, Denmark
The Master’s Voice: Caveirao, Guilherme Marcondes, France/USA/Brazil
The Missing Scarf, Eoin Duffy, Ireland
The Rancher, Kelly Sears, USA
Stop the Show (aka WAR), Max Hattler, UK
Subconscious Password, Chris Landreth, Canada
NEW VISIONS
All Vows, Bill Morrison, USA
* The Claustrum, Jay Rosenblatt, USA
* Entropic Apogee, Bill Manolios, USA
* Fat Chance, Jeanne C. Finley, USA
Numbers & Friends, Alexander Carson, Canada
* Spacetime, Ryan Wicks, USA
Walking Grainy, François Vogel, France
FAMILY FILMS
* The Dam Keeper, Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi, USA
I Want My Hat Back, Galen Fott, USA
My Mom Is an Airplane, Yulia Aronova, Russia/USA
The Numberlys, William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, USA
Sprout, Yoon Ga-eun, South Korea
YOUTH WORKS
* Cookie Wars, Natasha Lasky, USA
* Epitaph, Charles Blecker, USA
Lunch with Yoshi, Chaitanya Gopinath, Thailand
* Bay Area Girls Rock Camp, Lily Yu, Judy Lee, Jeremiah Mellor, USA
* Sin Madre, Buffy Almendares, USA
For general information visit festival.sffs.org.
To request interviews or screeners, contact your Festival publicist.
For photos and press materials visit sffs.org/pressdownloads.
57th San Francisco International Film Festival
The 57th San Francisco International Film Festival runs April 24-May 8 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, Castro Theatre and New People Cinema 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 nearly $40,000 in cash prizes, upwards of 100 participating filmmaker guests and diverse and engaged audiences with more than 65,000 in attendance.