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Press Release > Festival > Hold Review Films at the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival

Hold Review Films at the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival

Mar 30, 2010

Festival

The following films, playing in the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival (April 22-May 6), have secured U.S. distribution or expect to shortly. Full reviews and features for these films must be held until they open commercially, but we do encourage capsule reviews or mentions in Festival overview articles. We would appreciate it if, when your review runs, you do mention that the film premiered (if appropriate) or screened at the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival.  Thank you.

Air Doll, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan (Palisades Tartan)
Alamar, Pedro González-Rubio, Mexico (Film Movement)
All About Evil, Joshua Grannell, USA
Around a Small Mountain, Jacques Rivette, France/Italy (The Cinema Guild)
Bill Cunningham New York, Richard Press, USA
Budrus, Julia Bacha, Occupied Palestinian Territories/Israel
Cairo Time, Ruba Nadda, Canada (IFC)
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, Jan Kounen, France (Sony Pictures Classics)
Cold Weather, Aaron Katz, USA
Colony, Ross McDonnell, Carter Gunn, Ireland/USA (Area 23a)
Cracks, Jordan Scott, England/Ireland (IFC)
Cyrus, Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, USA (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Empire of Silver, Christina Yao, China/Taiwan/Hong Kong    
Everyone Else, Maren Ade, Germany (The Cinema Guild)
Father of My Children, Mia Hansen-Løve, France/Germany (IFC) 
Gainsbourg (Je t’aime . . . moi non plus), Joann Sfar, France    
Garbo the Spy, Edmon Roch, Spain    
Get Low, Aaron Schneider, USA (Sony Pictures Classics)
Hadewijch, Bruno Dumont, France (IFC) 
happythankyoumoreplease, Josh Radnor, USA (Myriad Pictures)
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno, Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea, France (Flicker Alley)
I Am Love, Luca Guadagnino, Italy (Magnolia Pictures)
Joan Rivers-A Piece of Work, Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg, USA (IFC)
Last Train Home, Lixin Fan, Canada/China (Zeitgeist)
Lebanon, Samuel Maoz, Israel (Sony Pictures Classics)
Life 2.0, Jason Spingarn-Koff, USA        
Lourdes, Jessica Hausner, Austria/France/Germany (Palisades Tartan)
Making Plans for Lena, Christophe Honoré, France (IFC)
Micmacs, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, France (Sony Pictures Classics)
Morning, Leland Orser, USA        
Nénette, Nicolas Philibert, France (Kino International)
Night Catches Us, Tanya Hamilton, USA
The Oath, Laura Poitras, USA (Zeitgeist) 
Presumed Guilty, Roberto Hernández, Geoffrey Smith, Mexico     
Rejoice and Shout, Don McGlynn, USA (Magnolia Pictures)
Restrepo, Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger, USA           
Sneak Preview of a new film by François Ozon, François Ozon, France (Strand Releasing)
Son of Babylon, Mohamed Al-Daradji, Iraq/England/France/Palestine/Netherlands/UAE/Egypt 
Soul Kitchen, Fatih Akin, Germany (IFC) 
Splice, Vincenzo Natali, USA (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Vengeance, Johnnie To, Hong Kong/China/France (IFC)
The Violent Kind, The Butcher Brothers, USA 
Waiting for “Superman“, Davis Guggenheim, USA (Paramount Vantage)
Wake in Fright (Outback), Ted Kotcheff, Australia/USA    
White Material, Claire Denis, France (IFC)
Wild Grass, Alain Resnais, France/Italy (Sony Pictures Classics)
The Wind Journeys, Ciro Guerra, Colombia/Netherlands/Argentina/Germany (Film Movement)
Winter’s Bone, Debra Granik, USA (Roadside Attractions)

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