Apr 1, 2014
Festival
AFRICAN (Sub-Saharan)
Difret, Zeresenay Berhane Mehari, Ethiopia
Shorts 6: Family Films (Boyhood)
We Come as Friends, Hubert Sauper, France/Austria
White Shadow, Noaz Deshe, Italy/Germany/Tanzania
AFRICAN AMERICAN
Dear White People, Justin Simien, USA
Freedom Summer, Stanley Nelson, USA
The High Five (short), Michael Jacobs, USA
No No: A Dockumentary, Jeffrey Radice, USA
Shorts 7: Youth Works (When Life Hands You Lemons, Inside the Ring)
ANIMATION / ANIME
Shorts 3: Animation
Shorts 4: New Visions (All Vows, Close the Lid Gently, Spacetime)
Shorts 6: Family Films (The Dam Keeper, I Want My Hat Back, My Mom Is an Airplane, The Numberlys, Silent, Soup of the Day)
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, USA
Shorts 7: Youth Works (Shadows of Senghenydd)
ARCHIVAL / RESTORATION / CLASSIC FILMS
All That Jazz, Bob Fosse, USA
The Lady Eve, Preston Sturges, USA
Manila in the Claws of Light, Lino Brocka, Philippines
Queen Margot: The Director’s Cut, Patrice Chéreau, France/Italy/Germany
Shorts 1 (Re:Awakenings)
Shorts 4: New Visions (All Vows, The Claustrum)
Shorts 5: Experimental: Looking Glass (Little Girl, Lost and Found)
Stephin Merritt with The Unknown, Tod Browning, USA
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, USA
ART / DESIGN / ARCHITECTURE
Agnès Varda: From Here to There, Agnès Varda, France
Art and Craft, Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker, USA
A Conversation with K.K. Barrett, USA
The Great Museum, Johannes Holzhausen, Austria
Impossible Light, Jeremy Ambers, USA
The Seventh Walk, Amit Dutta, India
Shorts 3: Animation
ASIAN
American Dreams in China, Peter Ho-sun Chan, Hong Kong/China
Bauyr (Little Brother), Seric Aprymov, Kazakhstan
Firestorm, Alan Yuen, Hong Kong/China
Happiness, Thomas Balmès, France/Finland
Harmony Lessons, Emir Baigazin, Kazakhstan/Germany/France
Intruders, Noh Young-seok, South Korea
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, David Zellner, USA
The Last Season, Sara Dosa, USA
Manakamana, Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez, USA/Nepal
Manila in the Claws of Light, Lino Brocka, Philippines
Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy, Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, Thailand
Norte, the End of History, Lav Diaz, Philippines
Our Sunhi, Hong Sang-soo, South Korea
The Seventh Walk, Amit Dutta, India
Shorts 6: Family Films (Sprout)
Shorts 7: Youth Works (Lunch with Yoshi)
Stray Dogs, Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France
Tamako in Moratorium, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Japan
Three Letters from China, Luc Schaedler, Switzerland
Trap Street, Vivian Qu, China
ASIAN AMERICAN
The Last Season, Sara Dosa, USA
Shorts 1 (So You’ve Grown Attached)
CHINESE LANGUAGE
American Dreams in China, Peter Ho-sun Chan, Hong Kong/China
Firestorm, Alan Yuen, Hong Kong/China
Stray Dogs, Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France
Three Letters from China, Luc Schaedler, Switzerland
Trap Street, Vivian Qu, China
COMEDY
All About the Feathers, Neto Villalobos, Costa Rica
Blind Dates, Levan Koguashvili, Georgia
Chinese Puzzle, Cédric Klapisch, France/USA
Dear White People, Justin Simien, USA
The Double, Richard Ayoade, UK
Frank, Lenny Abrahamson, Ireland/UK
If You Don’t, I Will, Sophie Fillières, France
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, David Zellner, USA
The Lady Eve, Preston Sturges, USA
Obvious Child, Gillian Robespierre, USA
Our Sunhi, Hong Sang-soo, South Korea
Ping Pong Summer, Michael Tully, USA
Shorts 1 (Angels, So You’ve Grown Attached)
Shorts 2 (Mystery, No One but Lydia)
Shorts 3: Animation (Drunker than a Skunk, Little Vulvah and her Clitoral Awareness, Missing Scarf, Subconscious Password)
Shorts 6: Family Films (I Want My Hat Back)
Shorts 7: Youth Works (Cookie Wars)
The Skeleton Twins, Craig Johnson, USA
Stand Up Planet, USA
Tamako in Moratorium, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Japan
Tip Top, Serge Bozon, France/Belgium/Luxembourg
The Trip to Italy, Michael Winterbottom, UK/Italy
CRIME
Abuse of Weakness, Catherine Breillat, France/Belgium/Germany
Art and Craft, Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker, USA
Child of God, James Franco, USA
Difret, Zeresenay Berhane Mehari, Ethiopia
The Dog, Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren, USA
Eastern Boys, Robin Campillo, France
Firestorm, Alan Yuen, Hong Kong/China
The Lady Eve, Preston Sturges, USA
Manos Sucias, Josef Wladyka, USA/Colombia
Manuscripts Don’t Burn, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran
Night Moves, Kelly Reichardt, USA
Norte, the End of History, Lav Diaz, Philippines
Standing Aside, Watching, Yorgos Servetas, Greece
Tip Top, Serge Bozon, France/Belgium/Luxembourg
The Two Faces of January, Hossein Amini, UK/USA/France
DOCUMENTARY
Agnès Varda: From Here to There, Agnès Varda, France
Art and Craft, Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker, USA
Burt’s Buzz, Jody Shapiro, Canada
Cesar’s Last Fast, Richard Ray Perez and Lorena Parlee, USA
Coast of Death, Lois Patiño, Spain
The Dog, Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren, USA
Fed Up, Stephanie Soechtig, USA
Freedom Summer, Stanley Nelson, USA
The Great Museum, Johannes Holzhausen, Austria
Happiness, Thomas Balmès, France/Finland
Heaven Adores You, Nickolas Rossi, USA
The High Five (short), Michael Jacobs, USA
Impossible Light, Jeremy Ambers, USA
The Last Season, Sara Dosa, USA
Manakamana, Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez, USA/Nepal
No No: A Dockumentary, Jeffrey Radice, USA
The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir, Mike Fleiss, USA
The Overnighters, Jesse Moss, USA
Return to Homs, Talal Derki, Syria/Germany
School of Babel, Julie Bertuccelli, France
The Seventh Walk, Amit Dutta, India
Shorts 1 (Barn Dance, Re:Awakenings, Santa Cruz del Islote)
Shorts 2 (Zima)
Shorts 4: New Visions (The Claustrum, Fat Chance, Numbers & Friends)
Shorts 7: Youth Works (Bay Area Girls Rock Camp, Inside the Ring, Point Reyes CA)
Soul Food Stories, Tonislav Hristov, Bulgaria/Finland
Stand Up Planet, USA
Stop the Pounding Heart, Roberto Minervini, USA/Italy/Belgium
A Story of Children and Film, Mark Cousins, UK
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, Mike Myers, USA
Three Letters from China, Luc Schaedler, Switzerland
20,000 Days on Earth, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, UK
We Come as Friends, Hubert Sauper, France/Austria
What Now? Remind Me, Joaquim Pinto, Portugal
EASTERN EUROPEAN / BALKANS
Blind Dates, Levan Koguashvili, Georgia
Eastern Boys, Robin Campillo, France
Shorts 2 (Dance of the Death, Zima)
Shorts 3: Animation (A Very Large Increase…)
Shorts 6: Family Films (My Mom Is an Airplane)
Soul Food Stories, Tonislav Hristov, Bulgaria/Finland
Tangerines, Zaza Urushadze, Estonia/Georgia
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism, Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania/France
ECONOMIC ISSUES
American Dreams in China, Peter Ho-sun Chan, Hong Kong/China
Bad Hair, Mariana Rondón, Venezuela/Peru
Cesar’s Last Fast, Richard Ray Perez and Lorena Parlee, USA
The Militant, Manolo Nieto, Uruguay
The Overnighters, Jesse Moss, USA
Stand Up Planet, USA
Stray Dogs, Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France
Three Letters from China, Luc Schaedler, Switzerland
We Come as Friends, Hubert Sauper, France/Austria
EDUCATION / SCHOOL
American Dreams in China, Peter Ho-sun Chan, Hong Kong/China
Bauyr (Little Brother), Seric Aprymov, Kazakhstan
The Blue Wave, Zeynep Dadak and Merve Kayan, Turkey/Germany/Netherlands/Greece
Dear White People, Justin Simien, USA
Fed Up, Stephanie Soechtig, USA
Freedom Summer, Stanley Nelson, USA
Harmony Lessons, Emir Baigazin, Kazakhstan/Germany/France
Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy, Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, Thailand
Palo Alto, Gia Coppola, USA
School of Babel, Julie Bertuccelli, France
ENVIRONMENTAL
Cesar’s Last Fast, Richard Ray Perez and Lorena Parlee, USA
Night Moves, Kelly Reichardt, USA
Shorts 4: New Visions (Fat Chance)
Shorts 7: Youth Works (Point Reyes CA)
Stand Up Planet, USA
EXPERIMENTAL
P.O.V. Award: Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves
Shorts 3: Animation (Cosmic Flower Unfolding, Rancher, Stop the Show, A Very Large Increase…)
Shorts 4: New Visions
Shorts 5: Experimental: Looking Glass
Stray Dogs, Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France
FAMILY FRIENDLY
Dolby Labs: The Sound of Movies (Master Class)
Fed Up, Stephanie Soechtig, USA
Freedom Summer, Stanley Nelson, USA
Happiness, Thomas Balmès, France/Finland
Painting with Pixar: A Workshop for Kids
School of Babel, Julie Bertuccelli, France
Shorts 6: Family Films
Shorts 7: Youth Works
We Are the Best! Lukas Moodysson, Sweden
FEMALE PERSPECTIVE
Agnès Varda: From Here to There, Agnès Varda, France
Alex of Venice, Chris Messina, USA
The Amazing Catfish, Claudia Sainte-Luce, Mexico
Belle, Amma Asante, UK
The Blue Wave, Zeynep Dadak and Merve Kayan, Turkey/Germany/Netherlands/Greece
Difret, Zeresenay Berhane Mehari, Ethiopia
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, David Zellner, USA
The Lady Eve, Preston Sturges, USA
Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy, Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, Thailand
Obvious Child, Gillian Robespierre, USA
Our Sunhi, Hong Sang-soo, South Korea
Shorts 7: Youth Works (Bay Area Girls Rock Camp, Lunch with Yoshi, When Life Hands You Lemons)
South Is Nothing, Fabio Mollo, Italy/France
Standing Aside, Watching, Yorgos Servetas, Greece
Stop the Pounding Heart, Roberto Minervini, USA/Italy/Belgium
Tamako in Moratorium, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Japan
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, USA
Tracks, John Curran, UK/Australia
We Are the Best! Lukas Moodysson, Sweden
Young & Beautiful, François Ozon, France
FOOD
Fed Up, Stephanie Soechtig, USA
The Last Season, Sara Dosa, USA
Shorts 6: Family Films (Soup of the Day, Sprout)
Shorts 7: Youth Works (Lunch with Yoshi)
Soul Food Stories, Tonislav Hristov, Bulgaria/Finland
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, Mike Myers, USA
The Trip to Italy, Michael Winterbottom, UK/Italy
GAY / LESBIAN / BISEXUAL / TRANSGENDER
Bad Hair, Mariana Rondón, Venezuela/Peru
The Dog, Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren, USA
The Dune, Yossi Aviram, France/Israel
Eastern Boys, Robin Campillo, France
The High Five (short), Michael Jacobs, USA
Last Weekend, Tom Dolby and Tom Williams, USA
Salvation Army, Abdellah Taïa, Morocco
The Skeleton Twins, Craig Johnson, USA
What Now? Remind Me, Joaquim Pinto, Portugal
Yves Saint Laurent, Jalil Lespert, France
HEALTH / MEDICINE / DISABILITY
The Amazing Catfish, Claudia Sainte-Luce, Mexico
Art and Craft, Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker, USA
Fed Up, Stephanie Soechtig, USA
The Last Season, Sara Dosa, USA
No No: A Dockumentary, Jeffrey Radice, USA
Shorts 1 (Re:Awakenings)
Shorts 4: New Visions (The Claustrum, Entropic Apogee)
Shorts 7: Youth Works (Lunch with Yoshi)
Stand Up Planet, USA
What Now? Remind Me, Joaquim Pinto, Portugal
IMMIGRATION / MIGRATION
Eastern Boys, Robin Campillo, France
The Last Season, Sara Dosa, USA
School of Babel, Julie Bertuccelli, France
JEWISH OR ISRAELI
Burt’s Buzz, Jody Shapiro, Canada
The Dune, Yossi Aviram, France/Israel
Shorts 2 (Deserted)
Shorts 3: Animation (Gloria Victoria)
Shorts 4: New Visions (All Vows)
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, Mike Myers, USA
LATIN AMERICAN
All About the Feathers, Neto Villalobos, Costa Rica
The Amazing Catfish, Claudia Sainte-Luce, Mexico
Bad Hair, Mariana Rondón, Venezuela/Peru
Cesar’s Last Fast, Richard Ray Perez and Lorena Parlee, USA
Club Sandwich, Fernando Eimbcke, Mexico
History of Fear, Benjamín Naishtat, Argentina/France/Germany/Uruguay/Qatar
Manos Sucias, Josef Wladyka, USA/Colombia
The Militant, Manolo Nieto, Uruguay
The Reconstruction, Juan Taratuto, Argentina
Shorts 3: Animation (The Master’s Voice: Caveirao)
LAW / LEGAL ISSUES
Art and Craft, Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker, USA
Difret, Zeresenay Berhane Mehari, Ethiopia
Freedom Summer, Stanley Nelson, USA
Norte, the End of History, Lav Diaz, Philippines
LOCAL FILMMAKERS / INTERESTS
Cesar’s Last Fast, Richard Ray Perez and Lorena Parlee, USA
Heaven Adores You, Nickolas Rossi, USA
Hellion, Kat Candler, USA
Impossible Light, Jeremy Ambers, USA
The Last Season, Sara Dosa, USA
Mel Novikoff Award: David Thomson: The Lady Eve
The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir, Mike Fleiss, USA
The Overnighters, Jesse Moss, USA
Palo Alto, Gia Coppola, USA
Ping Pong Summer, Michael Tully, USA
Porchlight, USA
Shorts 1 (Angels, Barn Dance, Santa Cruz del Islote)
Shorts 2 (No One but Lydia)
Shorts 3: Animation (Cosmic Flower Unfolding)
Shorts 4: New Visions (The Claustrum, Entropic Apogee, Fat Chance, Spacetime)
Shorts 5: Experimental: Looking Glass (Entr’Acte, Bright Mirror, DeLuce 2: Architectura)
Shorts 6: Family Films (The Dam Keeper)
Shorts 7: Youth Works
MIDDLE EASTERN, ARABIC OR ISLAMIC
The Blue Wave, Zeynep Dadak and Merve Kayan, Turkey/Germany/Netherlands/Greece
Manuscripts Don’t Burn, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran
Return to Homs, Talal Derki, Syria/Germany
Salvation Army, Abdellah Taïa, Morocco
School of Babel, Julie Bertuccelli, France
Shorts 5: Experimental: Looking Glass (Farther than the Eye Can See)
MUSIC
All That Jazz, Bob Fosse, USA
Frank, Lenny Abrahamson, Ireland/UK
Heaven Adores You, Nickolas Rossi, USA
The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir, Mike Fleiss, USA
Porchlight, USA
Stephin Merritt with The Unknown, Tod Browning, USA
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, Mike Myers, USA
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, USA
20,000 Days on Earth, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, UK
We Are the Best! Lukas Moodysson, Sweden
POLITICAL
Cesar’s Last Fast, Richard Ray Perez and Lorena Parlee, USA
Freedom Summer, Stanley Nelson, USA
Manuscripts Don’t Burn, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran
The Militant, Manolo Nieto, Uruguay
Night Moves, Kelly Reichardt, USA
Return to Homs, Talal Derki, Syria/Germany
Stand Up Planet, USA
Tangerines, Zaza Urushadze, Estonia/Georgia
We Come as Friends, Hubert Sauper, France/Austria
RELIGION / PHILOSOPHY / SPIRITUALITY
Happiness, Thomas Balmès, France/Finland
The Last Season, Sara Dosa, USA
The Overnighters, Jesse Moss, USA
The Sacrament, Ti West, USA
Shorts 2 (Mystery)
Soul Food Stories, Tonislav Hristov, Bulgaria/Finland
Stop the Pounding Heart, Roberto Minervini, USA/Italy/Belgium
We Come as Friends, Hubert Sauper, France/Austria
White Shadow, Noaz Deshe, Italy/Germany/Tanzania
SAN FRANCISCO FILM SOCIETY SUPPORTED
Hellion, Kat Candler, USA
The Last Season, Sara Dosa, USA
Little Accidents, Sara Colangelo, USA
Manos Sucias, Josef Wladyka, USA/Colombia
Obvious Child, Gillian Robespierre, USA
The Overnighters, Jesse Moss, USA
Ping Pong Summer, Michael Tully, USA
SCIENCE AND NATURE
The Last Season, Sara Dosa, USA
Shorts 2 (Zima)
SILENT
Stephin Merritt with The Unknown, Tod Browning, USA
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, USA
SPANISH LANGUAGE
All About the Feathers, Neto Villalobos, Costa Rica
The Amazing Catfish, Claudia Sainte-Luce, Mexico
Bad Hair, Mariana Rondón, Venezuela/Peru
Cesar’s Last Fast, Richard Ray Perez and Lorena Parlee, USA
Club Sandwich, Fernando Eimbcke, Mexico
Coast of Death, Lois Patiño, Spain
History of Fear, Benjamín Naishtat, Argentina/France/Germany/Uruguay/Qatar
Manos Sucias, Josef Wladyka, USA/Colombia
The Militant, Manolo Nieto, Uruguay
The Reconstruction, Juan Taratuto, Argentina
Shorts 1 (Santa Cruz del Islote)
Shorts 2 (Mystery)
Shorts 7: Youth Works (Sin Madre)
SPORTS / ATHLETICS
The High Five (short), Michael Jacobs, USA
No No: A Dockumentary, Jeffrey Radice, USA
Ping Pong Summer, Michael Tully, USA
Shorts 7: Youth Works (Inside the Ring)
TECHNOLOGY
Happiness, Thomas Balmès, France/Finland
Impossible Light, Jeremy Ambers, USA
Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy, Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, Thailand
Trap Street, Vivian Qu, China
TRAVEL
Agnès Varda: From Here to There, Agnès Varda, France
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, David Zellner, USA
Tracks, John Curran, UK/Australia
The Trip to Italy, Michael Winterbottom, UK/Italy
WAR / CONFLICT
The Last Season, Sara Dosa, USA
Queen Margot: The Director’s Cut, Patrice Chéreau, France/Italy/Germany
Return to Homs, Talal Derki, Syria/Germany
Shorts 2 (Deserted)
Shorts 3: Animation (Gloria Victoria, Stop the Show)
Tangerines, Zaza Urushadze, Estonia/Georgia
We Come as Friends, Hubert Sauper, France/Austria
WOMEN DIRECTORS
Abuse of Weakness, Catherine Breillat, France/Belgium/Germany
Agnès Varda: From Here to There, Agnès Varda, France
The Amazing Catfish, Claudia Sainte-Luce, Mexico
Art and Craft, Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker, USA
Bad Hair, Mariana Rondón, Venezuela/Peru
Belle, Amma Asante, UK
The Blue Wave, Zeynep Dadak and Merve Kayan, Turkey/Germany/Netherlands/Greece
Cesar’s Last Fast, Richard Ray Perez and Lorena Parlee, USA
The Dog, Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren, USA
Fed Up, Stephanie Soechtig, USA
Hellion, Kat Candler, USA
If You Don’t, I Will, Sophie Fillières, France
The Last Season, Sara Dosa, USA
Little Accidents, Sara Colangelo, USA
Manakamana, Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez, USA/Nepal
Night Moves, Kelly Reichardt, USA
Obvious Child, Gillian Robespierre, USA
Palo Alto, Gia Coppola, USA
School of Babel, Julie Bertuccelli, France
Shorts 1 (Barn Dance, So You’ve Grown Attached)
Shorts 2 (Dance of the Death, In-between Worlds, Zima)
Shorts 3: Animation (Little Vulvah and her Clitoral Awareness, Oh Willy, Rancher)
Shorts 4: New Visions (Close the Lid Gently, Fat Chance)
Shorts 5: Experimental: Looking Glass (DeLuce 2: Architectura, Farther than the Eye Can See, Metamorfoza, Queen Takes Pawn, A Study in Natural Magic)
Shorts 6: Family Films (My Mom Is an Airplane, Soup of the Day, Sprout)
Shorts 7: Youth Works (Bay Area Girls Rock Camp, Cookie Wars, Inside the Ring, Shadows of Senghenydd, Sin Madre, When Life Hands You Lemons)
Trap Street, Vivian Qu, China
20,000 Days on Earth, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, UK
YOUTH / TEENS AS SUBJECTS
Bad Hair, Mariana Rondón, Venezuela/Peru
Bauyr (Little Brother), Seric Aprymov, Kazakhstan
The Blue Wave, Zeynep Dadak and Merve Kayan, Turkey/Germany/Netherlands/Greece
Boyhood, Richard Linklater, USA
Club Sandwich, Fernando Eimbcke, Mexico
Difret, Zeresenay Berhane Mehari, Ethiopia
Fed Up, Stephanie Soechtig, USA
Happiness, Thomas Balmès, France/Finland
Harmony Lessons, Emir Baigazin, Kazakhstan/Germany/France
Hellion, Kat Candler, USA
Little Accidents, Sara Colangelo, USA
Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy, Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, Thailand
Palo Alto, Gia Coppola, USA
Ping Pong Summer, Michael Tully, USA
Salvation Army, Abdellah Taïa, Morocco
School of Babel, Julie Bertuccelli, France
Shorts 1 (The Birds’ Blessing, So You’ve Grown Attached)
Shorts 2 (In-between Worlds, No One but Lydia)
Shorts 6: Family Films (Boyhood, My Mom Is an Airplane, Sprout)
Shorts 7: Youth Works
South Is Nothing, Fabio Mollo, Italy/France
Stop the Pounding Heart, Roberto Minervini, USA/Italy/Belgium
A Story of Children and Film, Mark Cousins, UK
Stray Dogs, Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France
We Are the Best! Lukas Moodysson, Sweden
White Shadow, Noaz Deshe, Italy/Germany/Tanzania
Young & Beautiful, François Ozon, France
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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.