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Press Release > Festival > Special Interest Categories at the 55th San Francisco International Film Festival

Special Interest Categories at the 55th San Francisco International Film Festival

Mar 27, 2012

Festival

AFRICAN (SUB-SAHARAN)
The Double Steps, Isaki Lacuesta, Spain/Switzerland   
Meanwhile in Mamelodi, Benjamin Kahlmeyer, Germany/South Africa  
Sleeping Sickness, Ulrich Köhler, Germany/France/Netherlands  

AFRICAN AMERICAN    
Gimme the Loot, Adam Leon, USA      
LUV, Sheldon Candis, USA
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Terence Nance, USA
The Waiting Room, Peter Nicks, USA
    
ANIMATION
Chicken with Plums, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, France/Germany/Belgium  
Crulic – The Path to Beyond, Anca Damian, Romania/Poland/France 
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Terence Nance, USA
Shanimation (Shorts Program)          
The Storytellers Show (Shorts Program)                        
      
ARCHIVAL/RESTORATION/CLASSIC FILMS
Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple, USA          
House by the River, Fritz Lang, USA    
Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs) with Buster Keaton Shorts, USA       
Quadrophenia, Franc Roddam, England
The Third Man, Carol Reed, England
Tommy, Ken Russell, England      
  
ART/DESIGN/ARCHITECTURE
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China  
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, USA
The Double Steps, Isaki Lacuesta, Spain/Switzerland  
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, Sam Green, USA
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, Matthew Akers, USA      
The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, USA/United Arab Emirates  

ASIAN
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China  
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 YearsWithout Images, Eric Baudelaire, France
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA 
Choked, Kim Jong-hyun, South Korea      
The Day He Arrives, Hong Sangsoo, South Korea
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Ramona Diaz, USA
Golden Slumbers, Davy Chou, Cambodia/France  
I Wish, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan
Life Without Principle, Johnnie To, Hong Kong      
Old Dog, Pema Tseden, China/Tibet  
People Mountain People Sea, Cai Shangjun, Hong Kong/China  
Tokyo Waka, John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, USA/Japan  
Trishna, Michael Winterbottom, England
Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed, India/USA  
¡Vivan las antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky, Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile  
Wu Xia, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Hong Kong/China  
                    
ASIAN AMERICAN
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Ramona Diaz, USA      

CHINESE LANGUAGE
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China (Mandarin)
Life Without Principle, Johnnie To, Hong Kong (Cantonese)
People Mountain People Sea, Cai Shangjun, Hong Kong/China (Mandarin)
Wu Xia, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Hong Kong/China (Mandarin)

COMEDY
Acid Queens: Peaches & Tommy
Bonsái, Cristián Jiménez, Chile, France/Argentina/Portugal  
Darling Companion, Lawrence Kasdan, USA
David OReilly Says Something
Gimme the Loot, Adam Leon, USA
Hysteria, Tanya Wexler, USA/England  
The Intouchables, Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano, France
OK, Enough, Goodbye., Rania Atteh, Daniel Garcia, Lebanon/United Arab Emirates
Somebody Up There Likes Me, Bob Byington, USA
Where Do We Go Now?, Nadine Labaki, France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt  
Your Sister’s Sister, Lynn Shelton, USA      
      
DOCUMENTARY
Acting the Part (Shorts Program)
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China  
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images, Eric Baudelaire, France
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
Crulic – The Path to Beyond, Anca Damian, Romania/Poland/France  
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, USA      
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Ramona Diaz, USA
Ethel, Rory Kennedy, USA
Flipping the Script (Shorts Program)
Golden Slumbers, Davy Chou, Cambodia/France  
Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple, USA    
How to Survive a Plague, David France, USA      
In My Mother’s Arms, Atia Jabarah al-Daradji, Mohamed Jabarah  al-Daradji , Iraq/Netherlands/England/United Arab Emirates  
Informant, Jamie Meltzer, USA      
The Invisible War, Kirby Dick, USA
It’s the Earth Not the Moon, Gonçalo Tocha, Portugal
Last Call at the Oasis, Jessica Yu, USA
The Last Gladiators, Alex Gibney, USA      
The Law in These Parts, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Israel/USA/Germany  
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, Sam Green, USA    
Made in USA (Shorts Program)
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, Matthew Akers, USA   
Meanwhile in Mamelodi, Benjamin Kahlmeyer, Germany/South Africa  
Off Label, Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher, USA
Only the Young, Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet, USA
Patience (After Sebald), Grant Gee, England
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema, Todd McCarthy, USA    
The Queen of Versailles, Lauren Greenfield, USA/Denmark  
Shanimation (Shorts Program)
The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, USA/United Arab Emirates  
The Source, Maria Demopolous, Jodi Wille, USA
Step Up to the Plate, Paul Lacoste, France
Tokyo Waka, John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, USA/Japan  
¡Vivan las antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky, Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile  
The Waiting Room, Peter Nicks, USA    
Winter Nomads, Manuel von Stürler, Switzerland/France/Germany  
Women with Cows, Peter Gerdehag, Sweden
Youth Media Mashup (Shorts Program)      
                                      
EASTERN EUROPEAN/BALKANS
Crulic – The Path to Beyond, Anca Damian, Romania/Poland/France  
The Fourth Dimension, Harmony Korine, Aleksei  Fedorchenko, Jan Kwiecinski, USA/Russia/Poland  
Land of Oblivion, Michale Boganim, France/Germany/Poland/Ukraine
The Loneliest Planet, Julia Loktev, USA/Germany  
Target, Alexander Zeldovich, Russia/Germany  
¡Vivan las antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky, Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile  

ENVIRONMENTAL
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
It’s the Earth Not the Moon, Gonçalo Tocha, Portugal      
Land of Oblivion, Michale Boganim, France/Germany/Poland/Ukraine  
Last Call at the Oasis, Jessica Yu, USA
Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed, India/USA  
¡Vivan las antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky, Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile  
      
EXPERIMENTAL/AVANT-GARDE

The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images, Eric Baudelaire, France    
Blink of an Eye (Shorts Program)    
Made in USA (Shorts Program)
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Terence Nance, USA
Palaces of Pity, Gabriel Abrantes Schmidt, Portugal      
      
FAMILY-FRIENDLY
I Wish, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan
Meanwhile in Mamelodi, Benjamin Kahlmeyer, Germany/South Africa  
Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs) with Buster Keaton Shorts, USA
The Storytellers Show (Shorts Program)                                   
Will, Ellen Perry, England/France/Turkey  
Youth Media Mashup (Shorts Program) 

FEMALE PERSPECTIVE
Back to Stay, Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina/Switzerland/Netherlands  
Cherry, Stephen Elliott, USA
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, USA
Ethel, Rory Kennedy, USA
Farewell, My Queen, Benoît Jacquot, France/Spain  
Found Memories, Júlia Murat, Brazil/Argentina/France  
Goodbye, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran
Hysteria, Tanya Wexler, USA/England  
The Invisible War, Kirby Dick, USA
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, Matthew Akers, USA    
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA      
Palaces of Pity, Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, Portugal
A Secret World, Gabriel Mariño, Mexico
17 Girls, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, France      
Where Do We Go Now?, Nadine Labaki, France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt  
Women with Cows, Peter Gerdehag, Sweden      
      
FOOD
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA      
The Source, Maria Demopolous, Jodi Wille, USA
Step Up to the Plate, Paul Lacoste, France      

GAY/LESBIAN/BI-SEXUAL/TRANSGENDER
Acid Queens: Peaches & Tommy
Cherry, Stephen Elliott, USA      
Farewell, My Queen, Benoît Jacquot, France/Spain
How to Survive a Plague, David France, USA    
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA      
Your Sister’s Sister, Lynn Shelton, USA

HEALTH/MEDICINE/DISABILITY

How to Survive a Plague, David France, USA
Hysteria, Tanya Wexler, USA/England  
The Intouchables, Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano, France
The Last Gladiators, Alex Gibney, USA      
Off Label, Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher, USA
Oslo, August 31, Joachim Trier, Norway      
Robot & Frank, Jake Schreier, USA
Sleeping Sickness, Ulrich Köhler, Germany/France/The Netherlands  
The Waiting Room, Peter Nicks, USA
Women with Cows, Peter Gerdehag, Sweden      
      
HORROR
Last Screening, Laurent Achard, France      

IMMIGRATION
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA      
A Secret World, Gabriel Mariño, Mexico
Terraferma, Emanuele Crialese, Italy/France  

LATIN AMERICAN
Back to Stay, Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina/Switzerland/Netherlands  
Bonsái, Cristián Jiménez, Chile/France/Argentina/Portugal  
By the Fire, Alejandro Fernández Almendras, Chile/Spain/Argentina/Germany  
Found Memories, Júlia Murat, Brazil/Argentina/France  
Neighboring Sounds, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil    
A Secret World, Gabriel Mariño, Mexico      
¡Vivan las antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky, Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile  

LAW/LEGAL ISSUES
Choked, Kim Jong-hyun, South Korea      
Crulic – The Path to Beyond, Anca Damian, Romania/Poland/France        
Goodbye, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran      
Guilty, Vincent Garenq, France/Belgium  
The Law in These Parts, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Israel/USA/Germany  
Polisse, Maïwenn, France      

LITERATURE

Bonsái, Cristián Jiménez, Chile/France/Argentina/Portugal  
Chicken with Plums, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent  Paronnaud, France/Germany/Belgium  
Farewell, My Queen, Benoît Jacquot, France/Spain  
Headhunters, Morten Tyldum, Norway
Oslo, August 31, Joachim Trier, Norway
Patience (After Sebald), Grant Gee, England    
Smugglers’ Songs, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, France    
State of Cinema Address: Jonathan Lethem    
Trishna, Michael Winterbottom, England
Wuthering Heights, Andrea Arnold, England      
      
LOCAL FILMMAKERS/INTEREST
Acid Queens: Peaches & Tommy
Acting the Part (Shorts Program)
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
Blink of an Eye (Shorts Program)
Cherry, Stephen Elliott, USA
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Ramona Diaz, USA      
Flipping the Script (Shorts Program)
Informant, Jamie Meltzer, USA        
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, Sam Green, USA      
Made in USA (Shorts Program)
Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs) with Buster Keaton Shorts, USA      
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA
Porchlight
Shanimation (Shorts Program)
The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, USA/United Arab Emirates  
State of Cinema Address: Jonathan Lethem    
Tokyo Waka, John Haptas, Kristine  Samuelson, USA/Japan  
The Waiting Room, Peter Nicks, USA
Twixt, Francis Ford Coppola, USA          
Youth Media Mashup (Shorts Program)    

MIDDLE EASTERN
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images, Eric Baudelaire, France
Chicken with Plums, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent  Paronnaud, France/Germany/Belgium  
A Cube of Sugar, Reza Mirkarimi, Iran
The Exchange, Eran Kolirin, Israel, Germany      
Goodbye, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran      
In My Mother’s Arms, Atia Jabarah al-Daradji, Mohamed Jabarah  al-Daradji, Iraq/Netherlands/England/United Arab Emirates  
The Law in These Parts, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Israel/USA/Germany  
OK, Enough, Goodbye., Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia, Lebanon/United Arab Emirates 
Policeman, Nadav Lapid, Israel      
The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, USA/United Arab Emirates  
Where Do We Go Now?, Nadine Labaki, France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt  
                                                 
MUSIC
Acid Queens: Peaches & Tommy

Acting the Part (Shorts Program)
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Ramona Diaz, USA      
Golden Slumbers, Davy Chou, Cambodia/France  
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, Sam Green, USA
Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs) with Buster Keaton Shorts, USA      
Quadrophenia, Franc Roddam, England      
The Source, Maria Demopolous, Jodi Wille, USA  
                              
POLITICAL
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images, Eric Baudelaire, France
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
Crulic – The Path to Beyond, Anca Damian, Romania/Poland/France
Ethel, Rory Kennedy, USA
Farewell, My Queen, Benoît Jacquot, France/Spain
Goodbye, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran
Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple, USA
How to Survive a Plague, David France, USA
In My Mother’s Arms, Atia Jabarah al-Daradji, Mohamed Jabarah al-Daradji, Iraq/Netherlands/England/United Arab Emirates
Informant, Jamie Meltzer, USA
The Invisible War, Kirby Dick, USA
Last Call at the Oasis, Jessica Yu, USA
The Law in These Parts, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Israel/USA/Germany
Off Label, Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher, USA
Policeman, Nadav Lapid, Israel
Rebellion, Mathieu Kassovitz, France
The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, USA/United Arab Emirates
Smugglers’ Songs, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, France
The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Robert Guédiguian, France
Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed, India/USA

RELIGION/PHILOSOPHY/SPIRITUALITY

Only the Young, Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet, USA
The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, USA/United Arab Emirates
The Source, Maria Demopolous, Jodi Wille, USA
Tokyo Waka, John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, USA/Japan
Where Do We Go Now?, Nadine Labaki, France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt

SCIENCE/NATURE
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA
It’s the Earth Not the Moon, Gonçalo Tocha, Portugal
Last Call at the Oasis, Jessica Yu, USA
Last Winter, John Shank, Belgium/France/Switzerland
Off Label, Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher, USA
Tokyo Waka, John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, USA/Japan
Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed, India/USA
¡Vivan las antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky, Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile
Winter Nomads, Manuel von Stürler, Switzerland/France/Germany
Women with Cows, Peter Gerdehag, Sweden  

SENIORS

Ethel, Rory Kennedy, USA
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, USA    
Found Memories, Júlia Murat, Brazil/Argentina/France  
It’s the Earth Not the Moon, Gonçalo Tocha, Portugal
Robot & Frank, Jake Schreier, USA
The Waiting Room, Peter Nicks, USA    
Women with Cows, Peter Gerdehag, Sweden      
  
SEXUALITY
Back to Stay, Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina/Switzerland/Netherlands
Bonsái, Cristián Jiménez, Chile/France/Argentina/Portugal
Cherry, Stephen Elliott, USA
Compliance, Craig Zobel, USA
Dreileben – One Minute of Darkness, Christoph Hochhäusler, Germany
How to Survive a Plague, David France, USA
Hysteria, Tanya Wexler, USA/England
Only the Young, Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet, USA
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Terence Nance, USA
Palaces of Pity, Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, Portugal
A Secret World, Gabriel Mariño, Mexico
17 Girls, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, France
The Source, Maria Demopolous, Jodi Wille, USA
Trishna, Michael Winterbottom, England
Your Sister’s Sister, Lynn Shelton, USA                              

SILENT FILMS

Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs) with Buster Keaton Shorts, USA

SPANISH LANGUAGE
Back to Stay, Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina/Switzerland/Netherlands  
Bonsái, Cristián Jiménez, Chile/France/Argentina/Portugal  
By the Fire, Alejandro Fernández Almendras, Chile/Spain/Argentina/Germany  
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA
A Secret World, Gabriel Mariño, Mexico      
      
SPORTS/ATHLETICS
Flipping the Script (Shorts Program)
The Last Gladiators, Alex Gibney, USA
Meanwhile in Mamelodi, Benjamin Kahlmeyer, Germany/South Africa  
Only the Young, Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet, USA
The Storytellers Show (Shorts Program)
Will, Ellen Perry, England/France/Turkey  
Wu Xia, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Hong Kong/China  

TECHNOLOGY

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China  
Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, USA    
Last Call at the Oasis, Jessica Yu, USA
Robot & Frank, Jake Schreier, USA

WOMEN DIRECTORS
Acting the Part (Shorts Program)
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, USA/China    
Back to Stay, Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina/Switzerland/Netherlands    
Blink of an Eye (Shorts Program)
Chicken with Plums, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, France/Germany/Belgium
Crulic – The Path to Beyond, Anca Damian, Romania/Poland/France    
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, USA    
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Ramona Diaz, USA    
Ethel, Rory Kennedy, USA
Flipping the Script (Shorts Program)    
Found Memories, Júlia Murat, Brazil/Argentina/France
Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple, USA    
Hysteria, Tanya Wexler, USA/England    
Last Call at the Oasis, Jessica Yu, USA    
Leave Me Like You Found Me, Adele Romanski, USA    
The Loneliest Planet, Julia Loktev, USA/Germany
Made in USA (Shorts Program)    
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA    
OK, Enough, Goodbye., Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia, Lebanon/United Arab Emirates    
Only the Young, Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet, USA
Polisse, Maïwenn, France
The Queen of Versailles, Lauren Greenfield, USA/Denmark
17 Girls, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, France
Shanimation (Shorts Program)          
The Source, Maria Demopolous, Jodi Wille, USA
The Storytellers Show (Shorts Program)    
Tokyo Waka, John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, USA/Japan    
Where Do We Go Now?, Nadine Labaki, France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt    
Will, Ellen Perry, England/France/Turkey    
Wuthering Heights, Andrea Arnold, England
Your Sister’s Sister, Lynn Shelton, USA
Youth Media Mashup (Shorts Program)          

YOUTH/TEEN AS SUBJECTS

Acting the Part (Shorts Program)
Back to Stay, Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina/Switzerland/Netherlands    
Bonsái, Cristián Jiménez, Chile/France/Argentina/Portugal        
Flipping the Script (Shorts Program)    
The Giants, Bouli Lanners, Belgium/France/Luxembourg    
Gimme the Loot, Adam Leon, USA    
I Wish, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan    
In My Mother’s Arms, Atia Jabarah al-Daradji, Mohamed Jabarah al-Daradji, Iraq/Netherlands/England/United Arab Emirates    
Land of Oblivion, Michale Boganim, France/Germany/Poland/Ukraine    
LUV, Sheldon Candis, USA    
Meanwhile in Mamelodi, Benjamin Kahlmeyer, Germany/South Africa    
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA    
Only the Young, Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet, USA
Palaces of Pity, Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, Portugal    
Quadrophenia, Franc Roddam, England
A Secret World, Gabriel Mariño, Mexico    
17 Girls, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, France
The Storytellers Show (Shorts Program)    
Summer Games, Rolando Colla, Switzerland/Italy    
Terraferma, Emanuele Crialese, Italy/France    
The Waiting Room, Peter Nicks, USA    
Will, Ellen Perry, England/France/Turkey    
Youth Media Mashup (Shorts Program)      

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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.

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