Dec 13, 2011
SFFILM
The Best of Annecy, the best shorts from one of the most important animation festivals in the world, plays Friday, January 13 and Sunday, January 15 at SF Film Society Cinema (1746 Post Street).
Back by popular demand! The Annecy International Animated Film Festival, led by Serge Bromberg, who garnered the Novikoff Award at this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival, is widely regarded as the most important festival for animation in Europe and as a bellwether for the evolution of one of the most creative forms in cinema. The Best of Annecy-a reprise of the ever-popular SF International Animation Festival program-presents a dynamic and entertaining array of shorts that appeared in Annecy this year. Total running time 81 min.
The Eagleman Stag (Mikey Please, England, 9 min)
How to Feed the World? (Denis Van Waerebeke, Poland, 10 min)
The Lost Town of Switez (Kamil Polak, Poland, 21 min)
Luminaris (Juan Pablo Zaramella, Argentina, 6 min)
A Morning Stroll (Grant Orchard, England, 7 min)
Paths of Hate (Damian Nenow, Poland, 10 min)
Plato (Léonard Cohen, France, 8 min)
Sidewalk Scribble (Peter Lowey, Australia, 3 min)
Sticky Ends (Osman Cerfon, France, 7 min)
Showtimes 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 pm
Tickets $9 for SFFS members, $11 general, $10 senior/student/disabled. Box office now open for SFFS members, opens December 19 for the general public: online at sffs.org and in person at SF Film Society Cinema.
To request screeners contact bproctor@sffs.org.
For photos and press materials visit sffs.org/pressdownloads.
At SF Film Society Cinema, the stylish state-of-the art theater located in the New People building at 1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan) in Japantown, the San Francisco Film Society offers its acclaimed exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events on a daily year-round basis. For complete up-to-date information on all SFFS Cinema programming, including buying tickets, visit sffs.org/cinema.
Upcoming San Francisco Film Society programs
December 12, 14: The Catechism Cataclysm In Todd Rohal’s genre busting, hilarious and wonderfully confusing nest of twists and surreal gags, a heavy metal-loving priest takes a canoe trip to consider whether the church is his true calling, when he begins to realize he is lost.
December 16, 18-22: The Bride Wore Black New 35mm print. One of the most entertaining films of the French New Wave has Jeanne Moreau playing the femme fatale to the hilt in François Truffaut’s closest homage to his idol Hitchcock.
December 17: Holiday Movie Poster Sale A once-in-a-blue-moon sale with hundreds of posters from the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Film Society’s weekly screenings and contemporary commercial cinema.
Opening December 23: Silent Souls The myths and traditions of a vanishing culture are beautifully woven into Aleksei Fedorchenko’s lyrical, sensual and dreamlike film about love and loss.
December 23 (late show): Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale It’s the eve of Christmas in northern Finland, and an archeological dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn’t the one you want coming to town! DVDs and poster giveaways for lucky winners-great last-minute stocking stuffers!
January 3-5: Paul Goodman Changed My Life Jonathan Lee’s documentary chronicling the life and work of multidisciplinary thinker Paul Goodman.
Opening January 6: King of Devil’s Island Marius Holst’s true-story drama about a historic uprising at a Norwegian boys’ reform school.