Mar 27, 2012
Festival
Acting the Part (shorts program), TRT 97 min.
Alps, Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece/France, 93 min.
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images, Eric Baudelaire, France, 66 min.
Back to Stay, Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina/Switzerland/Netherlands, 99 min.
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA, 88 min.
Blink of an Eye (shorts program), TRT 70 min.
By the Fire, Alejandro Fernández Almendras, Chile, 95 min.
Crulic – The Path to Beyond, Anca Damian, Romania/Poland/France, 70 min.
The Day He Arrives, Hong Sangsoo, South Korea, 79 min.
The Do-Deca-Pentathalon, Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, USA, 82 min. (online screener only)
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Ramona Diaz, USA, 117 min.
The Double Steps, Isaki Lacuesta, Spain/Switzerland, 87 min.
Dreileben – Beats Being Dead, Christian Petzold, Germany, 88 min.
Dreileben – Don’t Follow Me Around, Dominik Graf, Germany, 88 min.
Dreileben – One Minute of Darkness, Christoph Hochhäusler, Germany, 90 min.
The Exchange, Eran Kolirin, Israel/Germany, 115 min.
Flipping the Script (shorts program), TRT 84 min.
Found Memories, Júlia Murat, Brazil/Argentina/France, 98 min.
The Giants, Bouli Lanners, Belgium/France/Luxembourg, 84 min.
Golden Slumbers, Davy Chou, Cambodia/France, 96 min.
Goodbye, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran, 100 min.
Guilty, Vincent Garenq, France/Belgium, 101 min.
Informant, Jamie Meltzer, USA, 80 min.
In My Mother’s Arms, Atia Jabarahal-Daradji, Mohamed Jabarahal-Daradji,
Iraq/Netherlands/England/United Arab Emirates, 86 min.
It’s the Earth Not the Moon, Gonçalo Tocha, Portugal, 185 min.
Land of Oblivion, Michale Boganim, France/Germany/Poland/Ukraine, 113 min.
Last Screening, Laurent Achard, France, 81 min.
Last Winter, John Shank, Belgium/France/Switzerland, 103 min.
The Law in These Parts, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Israel/USA/Germany, 101 min.
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, Matthew Akers, USA, 105 min.
Meanwhile in Mamelodi, Benjamin Kahlmeyer, Germany/South Africa, 74 min.
Neighboring Sounds, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil, 131 min.
OK, Enough, Goodbye., Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia, Lebanon/United Arab Emirates, 91 min.
Old Dog, Pema Tseden, China/Tibet, 88 min. (online screener only)
The Orator, Tusi Tamasese, New Zealand, 110 min.
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Terence Nance, USA/France, 94 min.
Palaces of Pity, Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, Portugal, 59 min.
Patience (After Sebald), Grant Gee, England, 90 min.
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema, Todd McCarthy, USA
Policeman, Nadav Lapid, Israel, 112 min.
Rebellion, Mathieu Kassovitz, France, 135 min.
A Secret World, Gabriel Mariño, Mexico, 93 min.
Shanimation (short animation program), TRT 78 min.
The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, USA/United Arab Emirates, 109 min.
Sleeping Sickness, Ulrich Köhler, Germany/France/The Netherlands, 91 min.
Smugglers’ Songs, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, France, 97 min.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Robert Guédiguian, France, 107 min.
Somebody Up There Likes Me, Bob Byington, USA, 90 min.
Step Up to the Plate, Paul Lacoste, France, 90 min.
The Storytellers Show (shorts program), TRT 68 min.
Summer Games, Rolando Colla, Switzerland/Italy, 98 min.
Target, Alexander Zeldovich, Russia/Germany, 154 min.
Tokyo Waka, John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, USA/Japan, 63 min.
Unfair World, Filippos Tsitos, Greece/Germany, 108 min.
Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed, India/USA, 82 min.
¡Vivan las antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky, Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile, 104 min.
The Waiting Room, Peter Nicks, USA, 80 min.
Will, Ellen Perry, England/France/Turkey, 102 min.
Winter Nomads, Manuel von Stürler, Switzerland/France/Germany, 89 min.
Women with Cows, Peter Gerdehag, Sweden, 93 min.
Youth Media Mashup (shorts program), TRT 84 min.
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55th San Francisco International Film Festival
The 55th San Francisco International Film Festival runs April 19-May 3 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, the Castro Theatre, SF Film Society Cinema and SFMOMA 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 $70,000 in cash prizes, upwards of 100 participating filmmaker guests and diverse and engaged audiences with more than 70,000 people in attendance.