Mar 29, 2016
Festival
AFRICA
As I Open My Eyes, Leyla Bouzid, Tunisia/France/Belgium
Shorts 4: New Visions (False Start, My Aleppo, Many Thousands Gone)
The White Knights, Joachim Lafosse, France/Belgium
AFRICAN AMERICAN
And when I die, I won’t stay dead, Billy Woodberry, USA/Portugal
Check It, Dana Flor, Toby Oppenheimer, USA
The Fits, Anna Rose Holmer, USA
Five Nights in Maine, Maris Curran, USA
haveababy, Amanda Micheli, USA
Miss Sharon Jones!, Barbara Kopple, USA
Morris from America, Chad Hartigan, USA/Germany
Presenting Princess Shaw, Ido Haar, Israel
The Return, Kelly Duane De La Vega, Katie Galloway, USA
Shorts 1 (The Send-Off)
Shorts 4: New Visions (Many Thousands Gone)
Southside With You, Richard Tanne, USA
State of Cinema: Wesley Morris
The Watermelon Woman, Cheryl Dunye, USA
ANIMATION
Granny’s Dancing on the Table, Hanna Sköld, Sweden/Denmark
Life, Animated, Roger Ross Williams, USA
Master Class: Journey of Tonko House, from The Dam Keeper to Moom
Master Class: Letting Your Imagination Soar with Moonbot Studios: A Workshop for Kids
NUTS!, Penny Lane, USA
Persistence of Vision Award: An Afternoon with Aardman Animations
Phantom Boy, Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol, France/Belgium
Shorts 3: Animation
Shorts 5: Family Films (The Casebook of Nips & Porkington, Moom, Mother, Nephtali, Simon’s Cat: Off to the Vet, Taking Flight, Wallace & Gromit – Cracking Contraptions: Turbo Diner, Welcome To My Life)
Shorts 6: Youth Works (Elliot)
Sixty Six, Lewis Klahr, USA
ARABIC / MIDDLE EASTERN
As I Open My Eyes, Leyla Bouzid, Tunisia/France/Belgium
The Fixer, Ian Olds, USA
Frenzy, Emin Alper, Turkey/France
Mr. Gaga, Tomer Heymann, Israel/Sweden/Germany/Netherlands
Mountain, Yaelle Kayam, Israel
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, Morgan Neville, USA
National Bird, Sonia Kennebeck, USA
Neither Heaven nor Earth, Clément Cogitore, France/Belgium
Presenting Princess Shaw, Ido Haar, Israel
Radio Dreams, Babak Jalali, USA/Iran
Shorts 4: New Visions (Abu Ammar Is Coming, False Start, My Aleppo, Sept – Oct 2015, Cizre)
Shorts 5: Family Films (Stripy)
Sonita, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, Germany/Switzerland/Iran
Under the Shadow, Babak Anvari, UK/Jordan/Qatar
Very Big Shot, Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya, Lebanon/Qatar
ARCHIVAL / RESTORATIONS
Aliens: 30th Anniversary Screening, James Cameron, USA
Beginnings and Endings: Master Class with David Thomson
Cast a Dark Shadow, Lewis Gilbert, UK
Mel Novikoff Award: An Afternoon with Janus Films and The Criterion Collection: Blood Simple, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, USA
Persistence of Vision Award: An Afternoon with Aardman Animations
Vampyr with Mercury Rev and Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins) – Live Score
The Watermelon Woman, Cheryl Dunye, USA
ASIAN / ASIAN AMERICAN
Assassination Classroom, Eiichirô Hasumi, Japan
Happy Hour, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Japan
Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous, Christopher Doyle, Hong Kong
Irving M. Levin Directing Award: An Afternoon with Mira Nair: Monsoon Wedding
Journey to the Shore, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan/France
The Man Who Knew Infinity, Matthew Brown, UK
Master Class: Journey of Tonko House, from The Dam Keeper to Moom
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, Morgan Neville, USA
Paths of the Soul, Zhang Yang, China
Right Now, Wrong Then, Hong Sang-soo, South Korea
Shorts 3: Animation (Deer Flower, Life Smartphone, Track)
Shorts 4: New Visions (Abu Ammar Is Coming, Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre)
Shorts 5: Family Films (Moom, Mother)
Shorts 6: Youth Works (Elliot)
Thithi, Raam Reddy, India/USA
Trivisa, Frank Hui, Jevons Au, Vicky Wong, Hong Kong/China
Under the Sun, Vitaly Mansky, Russia/Latvia/Germany/Czech Republic/North Korea
A Young Patriot, Du Haibin, China/USA/France
CHINESE LANGUAGE
Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous, Christopher Doyle, Hong Kong
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, Morgan Neville, USA
Trivisa, Frank Hui, Jevons Au, Vicky Wong, Hong Kong/China
A Young Patriot, Du Haibin, China/USA/France
COMEDY
The Apostate, Federico Veiroj, Spain/France/Uruguay
Assassination Classroom, Eiichirô Hasumi, Japan
Chevalier, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece
The Family Fang, Jason Bateman, USA
The Greasy Strangler, Jim Hosking, USA
Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Taika Waititi, New Zealand
Leaf Blower, Alejandro Iglesias Mendizábal, Mexico
Love & Friendship, Whit Stillman, Ireland/France/Netherlands
Maggie’s Plan, Rebecca Miller, USA
Microbe and Gasoline, Michael Gondry, France
Morris from America, Chad Hartigan, USA/Germany
NUTS!, Penny Lane, USA
Radio Dreams, Babak Jalali, USA
Shorts 5: Family Films (Bunny New Girl, Welcome to My Life, Simon’s Cat: Off to the Vet)
Shorts 6: Youth Works (Lucky Numbers)
Very Big Shot, Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya, Lebanon/Qatar
Winter Song, Otar Iosseliani, France
CRIME
Audrie & Daisy, Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, USA
Cast a Dark Shadow, Lewis Gilbert, UK
The Fixer, Ian Olds, USA
Frenzy, Emin Alper, Turkey/France
Our Kind of Traitor, Susanna White, UK
The Return, Kelly Duane de la Vega, Katie Galloway, USA
Shadow World, Johan Grimonprez, USA
Shorts 6: Youth Works (Child For Sale)
Trivisa, Frank Hui, Jevons Au, Vicky Wong, Hong Kong/China
Very Big Shot, Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya, Lebanon/Qatar
DANCE
Contemporary Color, Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross, USA
The Fits, Anna Rose Holmer, USA
Mr. Gaga, Tomer Heymann, Israel/Sweden/Germany/Netherlands
Shorts 5: Family Films (Nephtali)
DOCUMENTARIES
And when I die, I won’t stay dead, Billy Woodberry, USA/Portugal
Audrie & Daisy, Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, USA
Author: The JT Leroy Story, Jeff Feuerzeig, USA
The Bandit, Jesse Moss, USA
Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, USA
Check It, Dana Flor, Toby Oppenheimer, USA
Chef’s Table: Dominique Crenn, USA
Contemporary Color, Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross, USA
Dead Slow Ahead, Mauro Herce, Spain/France
Escapes, Michael Almereyda, USA
The Event, Sergei Loznitsa, Netherlands/Belgium
haveababy, Amanda Micheli, USA
The Islands and the Whales, Mike Day, Denmark/USA
The Joneses, Moby Longinotto, USA/UK
Life, Animated, Roger Ross Williams, USA
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, Werner Herzog, USA
Miss Sharon Jones!, Barbara Kopple, USA
Mr. Gaga, Tomer Heymann, Israel/Sweden/Germany/Netherlands
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, Morgan Neville, USA
National Bird, Sonia Kennebeck, USA
No Home Movie, Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France
Notes on Blindness, Peter Middleton, James Spinney, UK/France
NUTS!, Penny Lane, USA
Peter and the Farm, Tony Stone, USA
Presenting Princess Shaw, Ido Haar, Israel
The Return, Kelly Duane de la Vega, Katie Galloway, USA
Salero, Mike Plunkett, USA/Bolivia
Shadow World, Johan Grimonprez, USA/Belgium/Denmark
Shorts 1 (The Boatman, Peace in the Valley)
Shorts 2 (Extremis, Partners, Passing Orion, The Send-Off)
Shorts 4: New Visions (Abu Ammar Is Coming, False Start, Many Thousands Gone, My Aleppo)
Shorts 6: Youth Works (Child For Sale, Domar: To Tame, Fragile, From My Head to Hers, I Don’t Belong Here)
Sonita, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, Germany/Switzerland/Iran
Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music, Maro Chermayeff, Jeff Dupre, USA
Tickled, David Farrier, Dylan Reeve, New Zealand
Under the Gun, Stephanie Soechtig, USA
Under the Sun, Vitaly Mansky, Russia/Latvia/Germany/Czech Republic/North Korea
Unlocking the Cage, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker, USA
Weiner, Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg, USA
A Young Patriot, Du Haibin, China/USA/France
EASTERN EUROPEAN / BALKANS
All These Sleepless Nights, Michał Marczak, Poland/UK
The Event, Sergei Loznitsa, Netherlands/Belgium
Home Care, Slávek Horák, Czech Republic/Slovakia
The Innocents, Anne Fontaine, France/Poland
Shorts 4: New Visions (Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre)
The Summer of Frozen Fountains, Vano Burduli, Georgia/Russia
Thirst, Svetla Tsotsorkova, Bulgaria
ECONOMIC ISSUES
High-Rise, Ben Wheatley, USA
Little Men, Ira Sachs, USA
Our Kind of Traitor, Susanna White, UK
Salero, Mike Plunkett, USA/Bolivia
Shadow World, Johan Grimonprez, USA/Belgium/Denmark
EDUCATION / SCHOOL
Assassination Classroom, Eiichirô Hasumi, Japan
The Demons, Philippe Lesage, Canada
The Fits, Anna Rose Holmer, USA
Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous, Christopher Doyle, Hong Kong
The Man Who Knew Infinity, Matthew Brown, UK
Shorts 5: Family Films (Welcome to My Life, Bunny New Girl)
Shorts 6: Youth Works (Run, Run Away)
Sonita, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, Germany/Switzerland/Iran
Suite Armoricaine, Pascale Breton, France
A Young Patriot, Du Haibin, China/USA/France
ENVIRONMENTAL
The Islands and the Whales, Mike Day, Denmark/USA
Salero, Mike Plunkett, USA/Bolivia
EXPERIMENTAL / AVANT-GARDE
All These Sleepless Nights, Michał Marczak, Poland/UK
Ayiti Mon Amour, Guetty Felin, Haiti/USA
Between Us: Experimental Shorts
Counting, Jem Cohen, USA
Dead Slow Ahead, Mauro Herce, Spain/France
NUTS!, Penny Lane, USA
Shorts 2 (Night Without Distance, When You Awake)
Shorts 4: New Visions
Sixty Six, Lewis Klahr, USA
FAMILY FRIENDLY
Master Class: Journey of Tonko House, from The Dam Keeper to Moom (ages 10 and up)
Master Class: Letting Your Imagination Soar with Moonbot Studios: A Workshop for Kids (ages 7-11)
Persistence of Vision Award: An Afternoon with Aardman Animations (ages 12 and up)
Phantom Boy, Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli, France/Belgium (ages 9 and up)
Shorts 5: Family Films (ages 6 and up)
Shorts 6: Youth Works (ages 12 and up)
FEMALE PERSPECTIVE
As I Open My Eyes, Leyla Bouzid, Tunisia/France/Belgium
Audrie & Daisy, Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, USA
Author: The JT Leroy Story, Jeff Feuerzeig, USA
Chef’s Table: Dominique Crenn
The Fits, Anna Rose Holmer, USA
Granny’s Dancing on the Table, Hanna Sköld, Sweden/Denmark
Happy Hour, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Japan
haveababy, Amanda Micheli, USA
Home Care, Slávek Horák, Czech Republic/Slovakia
The Innocents, Anne Fontaine, France/Poland
Irving M. Levin Directing Award: An Afternoon with Mira Nair: Monsoon Wedding
Love & Friendship, Whit Stillman, Ireland/France/Netherlands
Maggie’s Plan, Rebecca Miller, USA
Miss Sharon Jones!, Barbara Kopple, USA
Mountain, Yaelle Kayam, Israel/Denmark
No Home Movie, Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France
Presenting Princess Shaw, Ido Haar, Israel
Shorts 1 (Seide)
Shorts 5: Family Films (Mother, Bunny New Girl)
Shorts 6: Youth Works (Child For Sale, From My Head to Hers, I Don’t Belong Here, Run, Run Away)
Sonita, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, Germany/Switzerland/Iran
The Watermelon Woman, Cheryl Dunye, USA
Wild, Nicolette Krebitz, Germany
FILMS / PROGRAMS ABOUT FILMMAKING
The Bandit, Jesse Moss, USA
Beginnings and Endings: Master Class with David Thomson
Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, USA
Escapes, Michael Almereyda, USA
Master Class: Journey of Tonko House, from The Dam Keeper to Moom
Master Class: Letting Your Imagination Soar with Moonbot Studios: A Workshop for Kids
State of Cinema: Wesley Morris
THINGS in Films
Very Big Shot, Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya, Lebanon/Qatar
The Watermelon Woman, Cheryl Dunye, USA
LITERATURE / ADAPTATION
And when I die, I won’t stay dead, Billy Woodberry, USA/Portugal
Assassination Classroom, Eiichirô Hasumi, Japan
Author: The JT Leroy Story, Jeff Feuerzeig, USA
Cast a Dark Shadow, Lewis Gilbert, UK
The Family Fang, Jason Bateman, USA
High-Rise, Ben Wheatley, UK
Indignation, James Schamus, USA
Love & Friendship, Whit Stillman, Ireland/France/Netherlands
Our Kind of Traitor, Susanna White, UK
Shadow World, Johan Grimonprez, USA/Belgium/Denmark
Shorts 5: Family Films (Moom)
FOOD
Chef’s Table: Dominique Crenn, USA
Shorts 3: Animation (Splotch)
Shorts 5: Family Films (Wallace & Gromit – Cracking Contraptions: Turbo Diner)
FRENCH LANGUAGE
As I Open My Eyes, Leyla Bouzid, Tunisia/France/Belgium
Ayiti Mon Amour, Guetty Felin, Haiti/USA
Les Cowboys, Thomas Bidegain, France/Belgium
The Demons, Philippe Lesage, Canada
The Innocents, Anne Fontaine, France/Poland
Microbe and Gasoline, Michel Gondry, France
Neither Heaven nor Earth, Clément Cogitore, France/Belgium
No Home Movie, Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France
Phantom Boy, Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli, France/Belgium
Suite Armoricaine, Pascale Breton, France
The White Knights, Joachim Lafosse, France/Belgium
Winter Song, Otar Iosseliani, France
HEALTH / MEDICINE
haveababy, Amanda Micheli, USA
Home Care, Slávek Horák, Czech Republic/Slovakia
The Innocents, Anne Fontaine, France/Poland
Life, Animated, Roger Ross Williams, USA
Miss Sharon Jones!, Barbara Kopple, USA
National Bird, Sonia Kennebeck, USA
Notes on Blindness, Peter Middleton, James Spinney, UK/France
Shorts 2 (Extremis)
Shorts 6: Youth Works (From My Head to Hers, I Don’t Belong Here)
HORROR
Aliens: 30th Anniversary Screening, James Cameron, USA
Under the Shadow, Babak Anvari, UK/Jordan/Qatar
Vampyr with Mercury Rev and Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins) – Live Score
IMMIGRATION
Morris From America, Chad Hartigan, USA/Germany
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, Morgan Neville, USA
Shorts 4: New Visions (False Start, My Aleppo)
Sonita, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, Germany/Switzerland/Iran
ISLAMIC
As I Open My Eyes, Leyla Bouzid, Tunisia/France/Belgium
Shadow World, Johan Grimonprez, Belgium/Denmark
Sonita, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, Germany/Switzerland/Iran
Under the Shadow, Babak Anvari, UK/Jordan/Qatar
JEWISH
Indignation, James Schamus, USA
Mr. Gaga, Tomer Heymann, Israel/Sweden/Germany/Netherlands
Mountain, Yaelle Kayam, Israel/Denmark
Presenting Princess Shaw, Ido Haar, Israel
JOURNALISM / RADIO
The Fixer, Ian Olds, USA
NUTS!, Penny Lane, USA
Radio Dreams, Babak Jalali, USA
LATIN AMERICAN
The Apostate, Federico Veiroj, Spain/France/Uruguay
Ayiti Mon Amour, Guetty Felin, Haiti/USA
From Afar, Lorenzo Vigas, Venezuela/Mexico
Leaf Blower, Alejandro Iglesias Mendizábal, Mexico
Neon Bull, Gabriel Mascaro, Brazil/Uruguay/Netherlands
Salero, Mike Plunkett, USA/Bolivia
Shorts 1 (Someone Is Happy Somewhere)
Shorts 6: Youth Works (Domar: To Tame)
LAW / LEGAL ISSUES
Audrie & Daisy , Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, USA
The Return, Kelly Duane de la Vega, Katie Galloway, USA
Shadow World, Johan Grimonprez, USA/Belgium/Denmark
Shorts 6: Youth Works (Child For Sale)
Tickled, David Farrier, Dylan Reeve, New Zealand
Under the Gun, Stephanie Soechtig, USA
Unlocking the Cage, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker, USA
LGBTQ
Check It, Dana Flor, Toby Oppenheimer, USA
From Afar, Lorenzo Vigas, Venezuela/Mexico
haveababy, Amanda Micheli, USA
The Joneses, Moby Longinotto, USA/UK
Presenting Princess Shaw, Ido Haar, Israel
The Watermelon Woman, Cheryl Dunye, USA
Shorts 1 (Peace in the Valley)
Shorts 2 (Partners)
LOCAL FILMMAKERS / INTERESTS
And when I die, I won’t stay dead, Billy Woodberry, USA/Portugal
Audrie & Daisy, Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, USA
Author: The JT Leroy Story, Jeff Feuerzeig, USA
Ayiti Mon Amour, Guetty Felin, Haiti/USA
The Bandit, Jesse Moss, USA
Beginnings and Endings: Master Class with David Thomson
Chef’s Table: Dominique Crenn, Andrew Fried, USA
Five Nights in Maine, Maris Curran, USA
The Fixer, Ian Olds, USA
haveababy, Amanda Micheli, USA
Master Class: Journey of Tonko House, from The Dam Keeper to Moom
National Bird, Sonia Kennebeck, USA
Radio Dreams, Babak Jalali, USA/Iran
The Return, Kelly Duane de la Vega, Katie Galloway, USA
Shorts 1 (In Attla’s Tracks, Someone Is Happy Somewhere)
Shorts 2 (Extremis, The Send Off, Partners, When You Awake)
Shorts 3: Animation (Splotch)
Shorts 4: New Visions (My Aleppo)
Shorts 5: Family Films (Moom)
Shorts 6: Youth Works (Child For Sale, Fragile, Run, Run Away)
Sonita, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, Germany/Switzerland/Iran
The Watermelon Woman, Cheryl Dunye, USA
MUSIC
As I Open My Eyes, Leyla Bouzid, Tunisia/France/Belgium
Contemporary Color, Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross, USA
Miss Sharon Jones!, Barbara Kopple, USA
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, Morgan Neville, USA
Presenting Princess Shaw, Ido Haar, Israel
Radio Dreams, Babak Jalali, USA/Iran
Sonita, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, Germany/Switzerland/Iran
Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music, Maro Chermayeff, Jeff Dupre, USA
Vampyr with Mercury Rev and Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins) – Live Score
POLITICAL
And when I die, I won’t stay dead, Billy Woodberry, USA/Portugal
As I Open My Eyes, Leyla Bouzid, Tunisia/France/Belgium
The Event, Sergei Loznitsa, Netherlands/Belgium
Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous, Christopher Doyle, Hong Kong
National Bird, Sonia Kennebeck, USA
Our Kind of Traitor, Susanna White, UK
The Return, Kelly Duane de la Vega, Katie Galloway, USA
Shadow World, Johan Grimonprez, USA/Belgium/Denmark
Shorts 1 (Peace in the Valley)
Shorts 4: New Visions (Abu Ammar Is Coming, Sept – Oct 2015, Cizre, Untitled)
Shorts 6: Youth Works (Child For Sale)
Sonita, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, Germany/Switzerland/Iran
Southside with You, Richard Tanne, USA
Under the Gun, Stephanie Soechtig, USA
Under the Shadow, Babak Anvari, UK/Jordan/Qatar
Under the Sun, Vitaly Mansky. Russia/Latvia/Germany/Czech Republic/North Korea
Weiner, Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg, USA
A Young Patriot, Du Haibin, China/USA/France
RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY / PHILOSOPHY
The Apostate, Federico Veiroj, Spain/France/Uruguay
As I Open My Eyes, Leyla Bouzid, Tunsia/France/Belgium
Blood of My Blood, Marco Bellocchio, Italy/France/Switzerland
The Innocents, Anne Fontaine, France/Poland
Journey to the Shore, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan/France
Mountain, Yaelle Kayam, Israel/Denmark
Notes on Blindness, Peter Middleton, James Spinney, UK/France
Paths of the Soul, Zhang Yang, China
Shorts 1 (Seide)
SCIENCE / NATURE
The Islands and the Whales, Mike Day, Denmark/USA
The Man Who Knew Infinity, Matthew Brown, UK
NUTS!, Penny Lane, USA
Peter and the Farm, Tony Stone, USA
Salero, Mike Plunkett, USA/Bolivia
Unlocking the Cage, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker, USA
SENIORS
Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous, Christopher Doyle, Hong Kong
No Home Movie, Chantal Akerman, Belgium
Shorts 1 (The Boatman, In Attla’s Tracks)
Shorts 2 (Extremis, Passing Orion)
Thithi, Raam Reddy, India/USA
SFFS-SUPPORTED
Ayiti Mon Amour, Guetty Felin, Haiti/USA
Five Nights in Maine, Maris Curran, USA
The Fixer, Ian Olds, USA
haveababy, Amanda Micheli, USA
The Islands and the Whales, Mike Day, Denmark, USA
The Joneses, Moby Longinotto, USA/UK
Salero, Mike Plunkett, USA/Bolivia
Shorts 1 (Someone Is Happy Somewhere, In Attla’s Tracks)
SPANISH LANGUAGE
The Apostate, Federico Veiroj, Spain/France/Uruguay
From Afar, Lorenzo Vigas, Venezuela/Mexico
Leaf Blower, Alejandro Iglesias Mendizábal, Mexico
Salero, Mike Plunkett, USA/Bolivia
Shorts 2 (Night Without Distance)
Shorts 6: Youth Works (Domar: To Tame)
SPORTS / ATHLETICS
Chevalier, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece
Contemporary Color, Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross, USA
The Fits, Anna Rose Holmer, USA
Shorts 6: Youth Works (Run, Run Away)
TECHNOLOGY
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, Werner Herzog, USA
National Bird, Sonia Kennebeck, USA
Presenting Princess Shaw, Ido Haar, Israel
Operator, Logan Kibens, USA
Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music, Maro Chermayeff, Jeff Dupre, USA
Tickled, David Farrier, Dylan Reeve, New Zealand
WAR / CONFLICT
As I Open My Eyes, Leyla Bouzid, Tunisia/France/Belgium
Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, USA
National Bird, Sonia Kennebeck, USA
Neither Heaven nor Earth, Clément Cogitore, France/Belgium
Shadow World, Johan Grimonprez, USA/Belgium/Denmark
Under the Shadow, Babak Anvari, UK/Jordan/Qatar
The White Knights, Joachim Lafosse, France/Belgium
WOMEN DIRECTORS
As I Open My Eyes, Leyla Bouzid, Tunisia/France/Belgium
Audrie & Daisy, Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, USA
Ayiti Mon Amour, Guetty Felin, Haiti/USA
Between Us: Experimental Shorts (Rock, Clay, Sand, Straw, Wood, Something Between Us, Starfish Aorta, Winter Trees)
Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, USA
Check It, Dana Flor, Toby Oppenheimer, USA
Chevalier, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece
The Fits, Anna Rose Holmer, USA
Five Nights in Maine, Maris Curran, USA
Granny’s Dancing on the Table, Hanna Sköld, Sweden/Denmark
haveababy, Amanda Micheli, USA
The Innocents, Anne Fontaine, France/Poland
Irving M. Levin Directing Award: An Afternoon with Mira Nair: Monsoon Wedding
Maggie’s Plan, Rebecca Miller, USA
Miss Sharon Jones!, Barbara Kopple, USA
Mountain, Yaelle Kayam, Israel/Denmark
National Bird, Sonia Kennebeck, USA
No Home Movie, Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France
NUTS!, Penny Lane, USA
Operator, Logan Kibens, USA
Our Kind of Traitor, Susanna White, UK
The Return, Kelly Duane de la Vega, Katie Galloway, USA
Shorts 1 (In Attla’s Tracks, Seide)
Shorts 2 (Partners, The Send-Off)
Shorts 3: Animation (Edmond, Glove)
Shorts 4: New Visions (My Aleppo, False Start, Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre)
Shorts 5: Family Films (Bunny New Girl, The Casebook of Nips & Porkington, Mother, Welcome to My Life)
Shorts 6: Youth Works (Child for Sale, From My Head To Hers, I Don’t Belong Here Run, Run Away)
Sonita, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, Germany/Switzerland/Iran
Suite Armoricaine, Pascale Breton, France
Thirst, Svetla Tsotsorkova, Bulgaria
Under the Gun, Stephanie Soechtig, USA
Unlocking the Cage, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker, USA
The Watermelon Woman, Cheryl Dunye, USA
Weiner, Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg, USA
Wild, Nicolette Krebitz, German
YOUTH / TEENS AS SUBJECTS
The Demons, Philippe Lesage, Canada
The Fits, Anna Rose Holmer, USA
From Afar, Lorenzo Vigas, Venezuela/Mexico
Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous, Christopher Doyle, Hong Kong
Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Taika Waititi, New Zealand
Leaf Blower, Alejandro Iglesias Mendizábal, Mexico
Little Men, Ira Sachs, USA
Microbe and Gasoline, Michael Gondry, France
Morris From America, Chad Hartigan, USA/Germany
Phantom Boy, Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli, France/Belgium
Shorts 1 (Seide)
Shorts 2 (The Send-Off)
Shorts 5: Family Films (Bunny New Girl, Welcome To My Life, Taking Flight)
Shorts 6: Youth Works
Sonita, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, Germany/Switzerland/Iran
Under The Sun, Vitaly Mansky, Russia/Latvia/Germany/Czech
A Young Patriot, Du Haibin, China/USA/France
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59th San Francisco International Film Festival
The 59th San Francisco International Film Festival runs April 21-May 5 at the Castro Theatre, the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, the Roxie Theater and the Victoria Theatre in San Francisco and BAMPFA in Berkeley. Held each spring for 15 days, SFIFF is an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and innovation in one of the country’s most beautiful cities, featuring nearly 200 films and live events, 14 juried awards with nearly $40,000 in cash prizes and upwards of 100 participating filmmaker guests.