Mar 29, 2011
Festival
The following films, playing in the 54th San Francisco International Film Festival(April 21-May 5), have secured U.S. distribution or expect to shortly. Full reviews and feature articles 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 54th San Francisco International Film Festival. Thank you!
American Teacher, Vanessa Roth, USA (826 National)
The Arbor, Clio Barnard, England (Strand Releasing)
Asleep in the Sun, Alejandro Chomski, Argentina
Attenberg, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece
Aurora, Cristi Puiu, Romania/France/Germany/Switzerland (The Cinema Guild)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, Andrei Ujica, Romania
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Marie Losier, USA
Beginners, Mike Mills, USA (Focus Features)
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Göran Hugo Olsson, Sweden/USA (IFC Films)
A Cat in Paris, Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli, France/Belgium/Netherlands/Switzerland (GKIDS)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzog, USA (IFC Films)
Circumstance, Maryam Keshavarz, France/USA/Iran/Lebanon (Roadside Attractions)
The Colors of the Mountain, Carlos César Arbeláez, Colombia/Panama (Film Movement)
Crime After Crime, Yoav Potash, USA (Submarine Entertainment)
The Future, Miranda July, Germany/USA (Roadside Attractions)
The Green Wave, Ali Samadi Ahadi, Germany/Iran (Visit Films)
Hot Coffee, Susan Saladoff, USA (Preferred Content)
I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive, Claude Miller and Nathan Miller, France (Strand Releasing)
Incendies, Denis Villeneuve, Canada/France (Sony Pictures Classics)
The Joy, Marina Meliande and Felipe Bragança, Brazil
Letters from the Big Man, Christopher Munch, USA (Submarine Entertainment)
Life, Above All, Oliver Schmitz, South Africa (Sony Pictures Classics)
The Light Thief, Aktan Arym Kubat, Kyrgyzstan/Germany/France/Netherlands (Global Film Initiative)
Meek’s Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt, USA (Oscilloscope Pictures)
The Mill and the Cross, Lech Majewski, Poland/Sweden (Kino Lorber)
Miss Representation, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, USA (Preferred Content)
My Joy, Sergei Loznitsa, Germany/Ukraine/Netherlands (Kino Lorber)
Mysteries of Lisbon, Raúl Ruiz, Portugal/France (Music Box Films)
Nostalgia for the Light, Patricio Guzman, France/Chile/Germany (Icarus Films)
Outrage, Takeshi Kitano, Japan (Magnolia/Magnet)
Page One: Inside the New York Times, Andrew Rossi, USA (Magnolia)
Le Quattro Volte, Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy/Germany/Switzerland (Kino Lorber)
The Redemption of General Butt Naked, Eric Strauss, Daniele Anastasion, USA (Film Sales Company)
She Monkeys, Lisa Aschan, Sweden
Silent Souls, Aleksei Fedorchenko, Russia (Shadow Distribution)
The Sleeping Beauty, Catherine Breillat, France (Strand Releasing)
Sound of Noise, Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, Sweden/France/Denmark (Magnolia)
Stake Land, Jim Mickle, USA (IFC Festival Direct)
Tabloid, Errol Morris, USA (IFC Sundance Selects)
Terri, Azazel Jacobs, USA (IDP/ATO Pictures)
13 Assassins, Takashi Miike, Japan (Magnolia)
Tilva Rosh, Nikola Lezaic, Serbia (Visit Films)
The Trip, Michael Winterbottom, England (IFC Films)
The Troll Hunter, André Ovredal, Norway (Magnet Releasing)
A Useful Life, Federico Veiroj, Uruguay (Global Film Initiative)
The Whistleblower, Larysa Kondracki, Canada/Germany (IDP/ Samuel Goldwyn Films)
!Women Art Revolution, Lynn Hershman Leeson, USA/Canada (Zeitgeist Films)
World on a Wire, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany (Janus Films)
Yves Saint Laurent l’Amour Fou, Pierre Thoretton, France (IFC Films)
For more information visit fest11.sffs.org.
For photos and press materials visit sffs.org/pressdownloads.
54th San Francisco International Film Festival
The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival runs April 21-May 5, 2011 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, the Castro Theatre, New People and SFMOMA in San Francisco and the Pacific Film Archive Theater in Berkeley. Held each spring for 15 days, the International is an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and innovation in the country’s most beautiful city, featuring 15 juried awards, 200 films and live events with upwards of 100 participating filmmakers and diverse audiences of 75,000+ people.