Apr 2, 2013
Festival
AFRICAN (Sub-Saharan)
God Loves Uganda, Roger Ross Williams, USA/Uganda
A Hijacking, Tobias Lindholm, Denmark
The Pirogue, Moussa Touré, France/Senegal/Germany
Tall as the Baobab Tree, Jeremy Teicher,USA/Senegal
AFRICAN AMERICAN
Before You Know It, PJ Raval, USA
God Loves Uganda, Roger Ross Williams, USA/Uganda
Let the Fire Burn, Jason Osder, USA
Shorts 3: Animation (Eyes On The Stars)
Shorts 7: Youth Works (Limitations, Checkmate)
Twenty Feet from Stardom, Morgan Neville, USA
Venus and Serena, Maiken Baird, Michelle Major, USA/England
ANIMATION / ANIME
Ernest & Celestine, Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner, France/Luxembourg/Belgium
Master Class: Saschka Unseld: A Pixar Animation Workshop for Kids
Shorts 3: Animation
Shorts 6: Family Films
Shorts 7: Youth Works
ARABIC / MIDDLE EASTERN
Downpour, Bahram Beyzaie, Iran
The Last Step, Ali Mosaffa, Iran
The Patience Stone, Atiq Rahimi, France/Germany/England/Afghanistan
Shorts 6: Family Films (My Friend Erhan)
ARCHIVAL / RESTORATION / CLASSIC FILMS
Chicken Real, Les Blank, USA
Christopher Tree, Les Blank, USA
Downpour, Bahram Beyzaie,Iran
Eight Deadly Shots, Mikko Niskanen, Finland
Helsinki, Forever, Peter von Bagh, Finland
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Philip Kaufman, USA
Marketa Lazarová, Frantisek Vlácil, Czech Republic
The Mattei Affair, Francesco Rosi, Italy
No More Road Trips?, Rick Prelinger, USA
The Search for Emak Bakia, Oskar Alegria, Spain
Spend it All, Les Blank, USA
To Live and Die in L.A., William Friedkin, USA
Waxworks with Mike Patton, Scott Amendola, Matthias Bossi and William Winant, Paul Leni, Germany
ART / DESIGN / ARCHITECTURE
The Artist and the Model, Fernando Trueba, Spain
Chimeras, Mika Mattila, Finland
Cutie and the Boxer, Zachary Heinzerling, USA
Helsinki, Forever, Peter von Bagh, Finland
POV Award: Jem Cohen: Museum Hours, Austria/USA
The Search for Emak Bakia, Oskar Alegria, Spain
Shorts 7: Youth Works (The Painted Girl)
ASIAN
The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark/Norway/England
Big Blue Lake, Tsang Tsui-Shan, Hong Kong
Chimeras, Mika Mattila, Finland
Cold War, Longman Leung, Sunny Luk, Hong Kong
Cutie and the Boxer, Zachary Heinzerling, USA
Inori, Pedro González-Rubio, Japan
Juvenile Offender, Kang Yi-kwan, South Korea
Key of Life, Kenji Uchida, Japan
Memories Look at Me, Song Fang, China
Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time, Yoon Jong-bin, South Korea
Our Homeland, Yang Yong-hi, Japan
Outrage Beyond, Takeshi Kitano, Japan
Penance, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan
Rent a Family Inc., Kaspar Astrup Schröder, Denmark
A River Changes Course, Kalyanee Mam, Cambodia/USA
Shorts 1 (Recollections)
Shorts 2 (Shanghai Strangers)
ASIAN AMERICAN
Cutie and the Boxer, Zachary Heinzerling, USA
Pearblossom Hwy, Mike Ott, USA/Greece
A River Changes Course, Kalyanee Mam, Cambodia/USA
Shorts 2 (Shanghai Strangers)
Shorts 7: Youth Works (Beginnings)
CHINESE LANGUAGE
Big Blue Lake, Tsang Tsui-Shan, Hong Kong
Chimeras, Mika Mattila, Finland
Cold War, Longman Leung, Sunny Luk, Hong Kong
Memories Look at Me, Song Fang, China
Shorts 2 (Shanghai Strangers)
COMEDY
Afternoon Delight, Jill Soloway, USA
Computer Chess, Andrew Bujalski, USA
Crystal Fairy, Sebastian Silva, Chile
Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach, USA
Inside the Drunken Mind of Derek Waters
Key of Life, Kenji Uchida, Japan
The Kings of Summer, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, USA
Much Ado About Nothing, Joss Whedon, USA
Prince Avalanche, David Gordon Green, USA
CRIME
Cold War, Longman Leung, Sunny Luk, Hong Kong
The Daughter, Alexander Kasatkin, Natalia Nazarova, Russia
Dom: A Russian Family, Oleg Pogodin, Russia
The East, Zal Batmanglij, USA
Eight Deadly Shots, Mikko Niskanen, Finlandhij
A Hijacking, Tobias Lindholm, Denmark
The Kill Team, Dan Krauss, USA
The Mattei Affair, Francesco Rosi, Italy
Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time, Yoon Jong-bin, South Korea
Outrage Beyond, Takeshi Kitano, Japan
Penance, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan
To Live and Die in L.A., William Friedkin, USA
DOCUMENTARY
The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark/Norway/England
After Tiller, Martha Shane, Lana Wilson, USA
Before You Know It, PJ Raval, USA
Blackfish, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, USA
Chimeras, Mika Mattila, Finland
Cutie and the Boxer, Zachary Heinzerling, USA
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay, Molly Bernstein, Alan Edelstein, USA
Fatal Assistance, Raoul Peck, France/Haiti/USA/Belgium
God Loves Uganda, Roger Ross Williams, USA, Uganda
Good Ol’ Freda, Ryan White, USA/England
Google and the World Brain, Ben Lewis, Spain/England
Inequality For All, Jacob Kornbluth, USA
Inori, Pedro González-Rubio, Japan
The Kill Team, Dan Krauss, USA
Let the Fire Burn, Jason Osder, USA
Leviathan, Lucien, Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel,France/England/USA
No More Road Trips?, Rick Prelinger, USA
Peaches Does Herself, Peaches, Germany
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, Sophie Fiennes, England/Ireland
Rent a Family Inc., Kaspar Astrup Schröder, Denmark
A River Changes Course, Kalyanee Mam, Cambodia/USA
Salma, Kim Longinotto, England/India
The Search for Emak Bakia, Oskar Alegria, Spain
Shepard & Dark, Treva Wurmfeld, USA
Shorts 1
Shorts 2 (A Story for the Moderns)
Shorts 3: Animation
Shorts 7: Youth Works
Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You – A Concert for Kate McGarrigle, Lian Lunson, USA
Sofia’s Last Ambulance, Ilian Metev, Germany/Bulgaria/Croatia
Spend it All, Les Blank, USA
Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, Canada
Twenty Feet from Stardom, Morgan Neville, USA
Venus and Serena, Maiken Baird, Michelle Major, USA/England
EASTERN EUROPEAN / BALKANS
Chaika, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Spain/Georgia/Russia/France
The Daughter, Alexander Kasatkin, Natalia Nazarova, Russia
Dom: A Russian Family, Oleg Pogodin, Russia
In the Fog, Sergei Loznitsa, Germany/Latvia/Russia/Netherlands/Belarus
Just the Wind, Bence Fliegauf, Hungary/Germany/France
Marketa Lazarová, Frantisek Vlácil, Czech Republic
Sofia’s Last Ambulance, Ilian Metev, Germany/Bulgaria/Croatia
ECONOMIC ISSUES
Eight Deadly Shots, Mikko Niskanen, Finland
Fatal Assistance, Raoul Peck,France/Haiti/USA/Belgium
Google and the World Brain, Ben Lewis, Spain/England
A Hijacking, Tobias Lindholm, Denmark
Inequality For All, Jacob Kornbluth, USA
Juvenile Offender, Kang Yi-kwan, South Korea
The Pirogue, Moussa Touré, France/Senegal/Germany
EXPERIMENTAL
Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel, France/England/USA
The Search for Emak Bakia, Oskar Alegria, Spain
Shorts 4: New Visions
Shorts 5: Experimental: Artifacts and Artificial Acts
FAMILY FRIENDLY
Ernest & Celestine, Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner, France/Luxembourg/Belgium
Shorts 6: Family Films
Shorts 7: Youth Works
FEMALE PERSPECTIVE
After Lucia, Michel Franco, Mexico/France
After Tiller, Martha Shane, Lana Wilson, USA
Afternoon Delight, Jill Soloway, USA
Chaika, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Spain/Georgia/Russia/France
The Daughter, Alexander Kasatkin, Natalia Nazarova, Russia
Everyday Objects, Nicolas Wackerbarth, Germany/France
Fill the Void, Rama Burshtein, Israel
Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach, USA
Good Ol’ Freda, Ryan White, USA/England
Habi, the Foreigner, María Florencia Álvarez, Argentina/Brazil
Il Futuro, Alicia Scherson, Italy/Germany/Chile/Spain
La Sirga, William Vega, Colombia/France/Mexico
Mai Morire, Enrique Rivero, Mexico
Memories Look at Me, Song Fang, China
Nights with Theodore, Sébastien Betbeder, France
The Patience Stone, Atiq Rahimi, France/Germany/England/Afghanistan
Penance, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan
Populaire, Régis Roinsard, France
Present Tense, Belmin Söylemez, Turkey
Salma, Kim Longinotto, England/India
Shorts 7: Youth Works
Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, Canada
Therèse, Claude Miller, France
They’ll Come Back, Marcelo Lordello, Brazil
Twenty Feet from Stardom, Morgan Neville, USA
Venus and Serena, Maiken Baird, Michelle Major, USA/England
What Maisie Knew, Scott McGehee, DavidSiegel, USA
Youth, Justine Malle, France
GAY / LESBIAN / BISEXUAL / TRANSGENDER
Before You Know It, PJ Raval, USA
God Loves Uganda, Roger Ross Williams, USA/Uganda
Peaches Does Herself, Peaches, Germany
Rosie, Marcel Gisler, Switzerland
Shorts 7: Youth Works (The Painted Girl)
HEALTH / MEDICINE / DISABILITY
After Tiller, Martha Shane, Lana Wilson, USA
Big Blue Lake, Tsang Tsui-Shan, Hong Kong
Rosie, Marcel Gisler, Switzerland
Sofia’s Last Ambulance, Ilian Metev, Germany/Bulgaria/Croatia
Unfinished Song, Paul Andrew Williams, England
Youth, Justine Malle, France
HORROR
Byzantium, Neil Jordan, England/Ireland
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Philip Kaufman, USA
You’re Next, Adam Wingard, USA
IMMIGRATION
Our Homeland, Yang Yong-hi, Japan
The Pirogue, Moussa Touré, France/Senegal/Germany
Shorts 7: Youth Works (Beginnings)
ISLAMIC
Downpour, Bahram Beyzaie, Iran
Habi, the Foreigner, María Florencia Álvarez, Argentina/Brazil
The Last Step, Ali Mosaffa, Iran
The Patience Stone, Atiq Rahimi, France/Germany/England/Afghanistan
Salma, Kim Longinotto, England/India
JEWISH
Afternoon Delight, Jill Soloway, USA
Fill the Void, Rama Burshtein, Israel
LATIN AMERICA
After Lucia, Michel Franco, Mexico/France
The Cleaner, Adrián Saba, Peru
Crystal Fairy, Sebastian Silva, Chile
Il Futuro, Alicia Scherson, Italy/Germany/Chile/Spain
Habi, the Foreigner, María Florencia Álvarez, Argentina/Brazil
Inori, Pedro González-Rubio, Japan
Mai Morire, Enrique Rivero, Mexico
Night Across the Street, Raúl Ruiz, France/Chile
Shorts 6: Family Films (Tintico’s Afternoons)
La Sirga, William Vega, Colombia/France/Mexico
They’ll Come Back, Marcelo Lordello, Brazil
LAW / LEGAL ISSUES
After Tiller, Martha Shane, LanaWilson, USA
Google and the World Brain, Ben Lewis, Spain/England
The Kill Team, Dan Krauss, USA
Let the Fire Burn, Jason Osder, USA
LITERATURE
Big Sur, Michael Polish, USA
Ernest & Celestine, Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner, France/Luxembourg/Belgium
Google and the World Brain, Ben Lewis, Spain/England
Il Futuro, Alicia Scherson, Italy/Germany/Chile/Spain
In the Fog, Sergei Loznitsa, Germany/Latvia/Russia/Netherlands/Belarus
The Last Step, Ali Mosaffa, Iran
Me and You, Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy
Much Ado About Nothing, Joss Whedon, USA
The Patience Stone, Atiq Rahimi, France/Germany/England/Afghanistan
Salma, Kim Longinotto, England/India
Shepard & Dark, Treva Wurmfeld, USA
Therèse, Claude Miller, France
What Maisie Knew, Scott McGehee, DavidSiegel, USA
LOCAL FILMMAKERS / INTERESTS
Big Sur, Michael Polish, USA
Google and the World Brain, Ben Lewis, Spain/England
Inequality For All, Jacob Kornbluth, USA
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Philip Kaufman, USA
Key of Life, Kenji Uchida, Japan
The Kill Team, Dan Krauss, USA
No More Road Trips?, Rick Prelinger, USA
Pearblossom Hwy, Mike Ott, USA/Greece
A River Changes Course, Kalyanee Mam, Cambodia/USA
Shepard & Dark, Treva Wurmfeld, USA
Shorts 1 (King’s Point)
Shorts 2 (Shanghai Surprise, Stepsister)
Shorts 4: New Visions
Shorts 6: Family Films (The Blue Umbrella, Cicada Princess)
Shorts 7: Youth Works
Show or Tell
Spend it All, Les Blank, USA
Waxworks with Mike Patton, Scott Amendola, Matthias Bossi and William Winant, Paul Leni, Germany
What Maisie Knew, Scott McGehee, David Siegel, USA
MUSIC
Good Ol’ Freda, Ryan White, USA/England
Peaches Does Herself, Peaches, Germany
Shorts 6: Family Films (Tintico’s Afternoons, Beethoven’s Wig)
Shorts 7: Youth Works (Limitations)
Show or Tell
Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You – A Concert for Kate McGarrigle, Lian Lunson, USA
Spend it All, Les Blank, USA
Twenty Feet from Stardom, Morgan Neville, USA
Unfinished Song, Paul Andrew Williams, England
Waxworks with Mike Patton, Scott Amendola, Matthias Bossi and William Winant, Paul Leni, Germany
POLITICAL / SOCIAL ISSUE
The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark/Norway/England
After Tiller, Martha Shane, Lana Wilson, USA
Before You Know It, PJ Raval, USA
Blackfish, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, USA
The East, Zal Batmanglij, USA
Fatal Assistance, Raoul Peck, France/Haiti/USA/Belgium
God Loves Uganda, Roger Ross Williams, USA/Uganda
A Hijacking, Tobias Lindholm, Denmark
Inequality For All, Jacob Kornbluth, USA
Just the Wind, Bence Fliegauf, Hungary/Germany/France
Juvenile Offender, Kang Yi-kwan, South Korea
The Kill Team, Dan Krauss, USA
Let the Fire Burn, Jason Osder, USA
The Mattei Affair, Francesco Rosi, Italy
Our Homeland, Yang Yong-hi, Japan
The Patience Stone, Atiq Rahimi, France/Germany/England/Afghanistan
The Pirogue, Moussa Touré, France/Senegal/Germany
A River Changes Course, Kalyanee Mam, Cambodia/USA
Salma, Kim Longinotto, England/India
La Sirga, William Vega, Colombia/France/Mexico
Shorts 7: Youth Works (There Is No Crisis in American Education)
Sofia’s Last Ambulance, Ilian Metev, Germany/Bulgaria/Croatia
Something in the Air, Olivier Assayas, France
Tall as the Baobab Tree, Jeremy Teicher, USA/Senegal
They’ll Come Back, Marcelo Lordello, Brazil
RELIGION / PHILOSOPHY / SPIRITUALITY
Fill the Void, Rama Burshtein, Israel
God Loves Uganda, Roger Ross Williams, USA/Uganda
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, Sophie Fiennes, England/Ireland
SENIORS
The Artist and the Model, Fernando Trueba, Spain
Before You Know It, PJ Raval, USA
Big Blue Lake, Tsang Tsui-Shan, Hong Kong
Cutie and the Boxer, Zachary Heinzerling, USA
Good Ol’ Freda, Ryan White, USA/England
Inori, Pedro González-Rubio, Japan
Mai Morire, Enrique Rivero, Mexico
Memories Look at Me, Song Fang, China
Night Across the Street, Raúl Ruiz, France/Chile
Rosie, Marcel Gisler,Switzerland
Shepard & Dark, Treva Wurmfeld, USA
Shorts 1 (King’s Point)
Shorts 6: Family Films (Tintico’s Afternoons)
Shorts 7: Youth Works (No Regrets)
Unfinished Song, Paul Andrew Williams, England
SILENT
Waxworks with Mike Patton, Scott Amendola, Matthias Bossi and William Winant, Paul Leni, Germany
SPANISH LANGUAGE
After Lucia, Michel Franco, Mexico/France
The Cleaner, Adrián Saba, Peru
Crystal Fairy, Sebastian Silva,Chile
Habi, the Foreigner, María Florencia Álvarez, Argentina/Brazil
Mai Morire, Enrique Rivero, Mexico
Night Across the Street, Raúl Ruiz, France/Chile
La Sirga, William Vega, Colombia/France/Mexico
SPORTS / ATHLETICS
Venus and Serena, Maiken Baird, Michelle Major, USA/England
TECHNOLOGY
Computer Chess, Andrew Bujalski, USA
Google and the World Brain, Ben Lewis, Spain/England
TRAVEL
Before Midnight, Richard Linklater, USA
Crystal Fairy, Sebastian Silva, Chile
Everyday Objects, Nicolas Wackerbarth, Germany/France
Habi, the Foreigner, María Florencia Álvarez, Argentina/Brazil
No More Road Trips?, Rick Prelinger, USA
The Search for Emak Bakia, Oskar Alegria, Spain
WAR/CONFLICT
The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark/Norway/England
God Loves Uganda, Roger Ross Williams, USA/Uganda
In the Fog, Sergei Loznitsa, Germany/Latvia/Russia/Netherlands/Belarus
The Kill Team, Dan Krauss, USA
The Patience Stone, Atiq Rahimi, France/Germany/England/Afghanistan
WOMEN DIRECTORS (Features Only)
After Tiller, Martha Shane, Lana Wilson, USA
Afternoon Delight, Jill Soloway, USA
Blackfish, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, USA
The Daughter, Alexander Kasatkin, Natalia Nazarova, Russia
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay, Molly Bernstein, AlanEdelstein, USA
Fill the Void, Rama Burshtein, Israel
Il Futuro, Alicia Scherson, Italy/Germany/Chile/Spain
Habi, the Foreigner, María Florencia Álvarez, Argentina/Brazil
Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel, France/England/USA
Memories Look at Me, Song Fang, China
Peaches Does Herself, Peaches, Germany
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, Sophie Fiennes, England/Ireland
Present Tense, Belmin Söylemez, Turkey
A River Changes Course, Kalyanee Mam, Cambodia/USA
Salma, Kim Longinotto, England/India
Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You – A Concert for Kate McGarrigle, Lian Lunson, USA
Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, Canada
Venus and Serena, Maiken Baird, Michelle Major, USA/England
Youth, Justine Malle, France
YOUTH / TEENS AS SUBJECTS
After Lucia, Michel Franco, Mexico/France
The Cleaner, Adrián Saba, Peru
The Daughter, Alexander Kasatkin, Natalia Nazarova, Russia
Fill the Void, Rama Burshtein, Israel
Il Futuro, Alicia Scherson, Italy/Germany/Chile/Spain
Just the Wind, Bence Fliegauf, Hungary/Germany/France
Juvenile Offender, Kang Yi-kwan, South Korea
The Kings of Summer, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, USA
Me and You, Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy
Penance, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan
A River Changes Course, Kalyanee Mam, Cambodia/USA
Shorts 1 (On The Edge)
Shorts 2 (Vacances)
Shorts 6: Family Films
Shorts 7: Youth Works
La Sirga, William Vega, Colombia/France/Mexico
Something in the Air, Olivier Assayas, France
The Strange Little Cat, Ramon Zürcher Germany
Tall as the Baobab Tree, Jeremy Teicher, USA/Senegal
They’ll Come Back, Marcelo Lordello, Brazil
What Maisie Knew, Scott McGehee,DavidSiegel, USA
Youth, Justine Malle, France
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56th San Francisco International Film Festival
The 56th San Francisco International Film Festival runs April 25-May 9 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, the Castro Theatre and New People Cinema 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 in attendance.