Mar 29, 2011
Festival
AFRICAN (SUB-SAHARAN)
Kinyarwanda, Alrick Brown, USA/Rwanda
Life, Above All, Oliver Schmitz, South Africa/Germany
The Place in Between, Sarah Bouyain, France/Burkina Faso
The Redemption of General Butt Naked, Eric Strauss, Daniele Anastasion, USA
AFRICAN AMERICAN
American Teacher, Vanessa Roth, USA
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Göran Hugo Olsson, Sweden/USA
Crime After Crime, Yoav Potash, USA
ANIMATION
A Cat in Paris, Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol, France/Belgium
The Green Wave, Ali Samadi Ahadi, Germany/Iran
MEL NOVIKOFF AWARD: An Afternoon with Serge Bromberg, Retour de Flamme: Rare and Restored Films in 3-D
Coyote Falls, Matthew O’Callaghan, USA
Falling In Love Again, Munro Ferguson, Canada
Fur of Flying, Matthew O’Callaghan, USA
Knick Knack, John Lasseter, USA
Lumber Jack-Rabbit, Chuck Jones, USA
Melody, Ward Kimball, USA
Musical Memories, Dave Fleischer, USA
Working for Peanuts, Jack Hannah, USA
New Skin for the Old Ceremony
Field Commander Cohen, Theo Angell, USA
Is This What You Wanted, Brent Green, USA
I Tried to Leave You, Kelly Sears, USA
A Singer Must Die, Lucky Dragons, USA
There Is a War, Sylvan Lanken, Lily Lanken, Canada
SHORTS PROGRAM: Cupid with Fangs
Machines of the Working Class, James Dastoli, Robert Dastoli, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: Do You See What I See?
Jillian Dillon, Yvette Edery, Germany/USA
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg, USA
Ormie, Rob Silvestri, Canada
The Snowman, Kelly Wilson, Neil Wrischnik, USA
Specky Four Eyes, Jean-Claude Rozec, France
Twist & Shout, Yosuke Kihara, Japan
Walk Don’t Run, Yosuke Kihara, Japan
SHORTS PROGRAM: Get with the Program
The Cap, Arjun Rihan, India
Dromosphere, Thorsten Fleisch, Germany
The External World, David O’Reilly, Ireland/Germany
Get with the Program, Jennifer Drummond Deutrom, USA
Hail, Emily Hubley, USA
Pixels, Patrick Jean, France
A Purpleman, Kim Tak-hoon, Yoo Jin-young, Ryu Jin-young, Park Sung-ho, South Korea
Sync, Max Hattler, England
SHORTS PROGRAM: Mind the Gap
Chromatastic, Kerry Laitala, USA
Once it started it could not end otherwise, Kelly Sears, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: Youth Media Mash-Up
Fire Bad, Isaac Wolfe, USA
Neighborhood Watch, Zachary Booth, USA
ART
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Marie Losier, USA
Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzog, USA
GOLDEN GATE PERSISTENCE OF VISION AWARD: An Afternoon with Matthew Barney
Drawing Restraint 17, Matthew Barney, Switzerland
The Mill and the Cross, Lech Majewski, Poland/Sweden
Nainsukh, Amit Dutta, India/Switzerland
!Women Art Revolution, Lynn Hershman Leeson, USA/Canada
ASIAN
Autumn, Aamir Bashir, India
End of Animal, Jo Sung-hee, South Korea
Hahaha, Hong Sang-soo, South Korea
The High Life, Zhao Dayong, China
Hospitalité, Koji Fukada, Japan
The Journals of Musan, Park Jung-bum, South Korea
Let the Wind Carry Me, Chiang Hsiu-chiung, Kwan Pun-leung, Taiwan
The Light Thief, Aktan Arym Kubat, Kyrgyzstan/Germany
Love in a Puff, Pang Ho-Cheung, Hong Kong
Marathon Boy, Gemma Atwal, England/USA/India
Nainsukh, Amit Dutta, India/Switzerland
Outrage, Takeshi Kitano, Japan
Pink Saris, Kim Longinotto, England/India
Position Among the Stars, Leonard Retel Helmrich, Netherlands
SHORTS PROGRAM: The Deep End
Tokyo – Ebisu, Tomonari Nishikawa, Japan
SHORTS PROGRAM: Do You See What I See?
Twist and Shout, Yosuke Kihara, Japan
Walk Don’t Run, Yosuke Kihara, Japan
SHORTS PROGRAM: Get with the Program
The Cap, Arjun Rihan, India
A Purpleman, Kim Tak-hoon, Yoo Jin-young, Ryu Jin-young, Park Sung-ho, South Korea
SHORTS PROGRAM: Youth Media Mash-Up
India Export, Raphael Linden, USA/India
The Stool Pigeon, Dante Lam, Hong Kong/China
13 Assassins, Takashi Miike, Japan
Year Without a Summer, Tan Chui Mui, Malaysia
DOCUMENTARY
American Teacher, Vanessa Roth, USA
The Arbor, Clio Barnard, England
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, Andrei Ujica, Romania
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Marie Losier, USA
Better This World, Kelly Duane de la Vega, Katie Galloway, USA
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Göran Hugo Olsson, Sweden/USA
Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzog, USA
Children of the Princess of Cleves, Régis Sauder, France
Cinema Komunisto, Mila Turajlic, Serbia
Crime After Crime, Yoav Potash, USA
Detroit Wild City, Florent Tillon, USA/France
Foreign Parts, Véréna Paravel, J.P. Sniadecki, USA/France
The Good Life, Eva Mulvad, Denmark
The Green Wave, Ali Samadi Ahadi, Germany/Iran
Hot Coffee, Susan Saladoff, USA
Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Mr. Leonard Cohen, Donald Brittain, Don Owen, Canada
The Last Buffalo Hunt, Lee Anne Schmitt, USA
Let the Wind Carry Me, Chiang Hsiu-chiung, Kwan Pun-leung, Taiwan
Marathon Boy, Gemma Atwal, England/USA/India
Miss Representation, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, USA
Nostalgia for the Light, Patricio Guzmán, France/Chile
MEL NOVIKOFF AWARD: An Afternoon with Serge Bromberg, Retour de Flamme: Rare and Restored Films in 3-D
Arrival of a Train and Other Lumière Shorts, Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière, France
Motor Rhythm, John Norling, USA
Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times, Andrew Rossi, USA
Pink Saris, Kim Longinotto, England/India
The Pipe, Risteard Ó Domhnaill, Ireland
Position Among the Stars, Leonard Retel Helmrich, Netherlands
The Redemption of General Butt Naked, Eric Strauss, Daniele Anastasion, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: Cupid with Fangs
Library of Dust, Ondi Timoner, Robert James, USA
Red Shirley, Lou Reed, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: Irresistible Impulse
The Home Front, Phie Ambo, Denmark
Into the Middle of Nowhere, Anna Frances Ewert, Scotland/England
SHORTS PROGRAM: Youth Media Mash-Up
Come to the Table, Zoe Sainave, USA
Escape from Suburbia, Mayana Bonapart, USA
Independence in Sight, Sydney Paige Matterson, Lauren Lindberg, Julian Compagni- Portis, Bonita Tindle, USA
Z-Man, Nat Talbot, USA
Something Ventured, Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine, USA
Tabloid, Errol Morris, USA
The Tiniest Place, Tatiana Huezo, Mexico
!Women Art Revolution, Lynn Hershman Leeson, USA/Canada
Yves Saint Laurent l’Amour Fou, Pierre Thoretton, France
EASTERN EUROPEAN/BALKANS
Aurora, Cristi Puiu, Romania/France/Germany/Switzerland
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, Andrei Ujica, Romania
Chantrapas, Otar Iosseliani, France/Georgia
Cinema Komunisto, Mila Turajlic, Serbia
The Mill and the Cross, Lech Majewski, Poland/Sweden
My Joy, Sergei Loznitsa, Germany/Ukraine/The Netherlands
Silent Souls, Aleksei Fedorchenko, Russia
Tilva Rosh, Nikola Lezaic, Serbia
Walking Too Fast, Radim Spacek, Czech Republic/Slovak Republic
The Whistleblower, Larysa Kondracki, Canada/Germany
EDUCATION
American Teacher, Vanessa Roth, USA
Children of the Princess of Cleves, Régis Sauder, France
Hands Up, Romain Goupil, France
SHORTS PROGRAM: Youth Media Mash-Up
Come to the Table, Zoe Sainave, USA
Independence in Sight, Sydney Paige Matterson, Lauren Lindberg, Julian Compagni-Portis, Bonita Tindle, USA
ENVIRONMENTAL/NATURE
Detroit Wild City, Florent Tillon, USA/France
The Last Buffalo Hunt, Lee Anne Schmitt, USA
Letters from the Big Man, Christopher Munch, USA
Nostalgia for the Light, Patricio Guzmán, France/Chile
The Pipe, Risteard Ó Domhnaill, Ireland
Le Quattro Volte, Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy
SHORTS PROGRAM: The Deep End
Minong, I Slept, Vera Brunner-Sung, USA
EXPERIMENTAL/AVANT-GARDE
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Marie Losier, USA
GOLDEN GATE PERSISTENCE OF VISION AWARD: An Afternoon with Matthew Barney
Drawing Restraint 17, Matthew Barney, Switzerland
The Last Buffalo Hunt, Lee Anne Schmitt, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: The Deep End
Burning Bush, Vincent Grenier, Canada/USA
I Swim Now, Sarah Biagini, USA
Last Resort, Katherin McInnis, USA
A Little Prayer (H-E-L-P), Louise Bourque, Canada
Minong, I Slept, Vera Brunner-Sung, USA
Slave Ship, T. Marie, USA
Tokyo – Ebisu, Tomonari Nishikawa, Japan
Trypps #7 (Badlands), Ben Russell, USA
Victoria, George, Edward and Thatcher, Callum Cooper, England
SHORTS PROGRAM: Get with the Program
Dromosphere, Thorsten Fleisch, Germany
Self Portrait as a PowerPoint Proposal for an Amusement Park Ride, Jonn Herschend, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: Mind the Gap
All Flowers in Time, Jonathan Caouette, Canada
Coming Attractions, Peter Tscherkassky, Austria
Lost Lake, Zackary Drucker, USA
Tourist Trap, Skye Thorstenson, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: Youth Media Mash-Up
India Export, Raphael Linden, USA/India
FAMILY FILMS
A Cat in Paris, Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol, France/Belgium
SHORTS PROGRAM: Do You See What I See?
Jillian Dillon, Yvette Edery, Germany/USA
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg, USA
Ormie, Rob Silvestri, Canada
Play by Play, Carlos Baena, USA
The Snowman, Kelly Wilson, Neil Wrischnik, USA
Specky Four Eyes, Jean-Claude Rozec, France
Twist & Shout, Yosuke Kihara, Japan
Walk Don’t Run, Yosuke Kihara, Japan
GAY/LESBIAN/BISEXUAL/TRANSGENDER
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Marie Losier, USA
Beginners, Mike Mills, USA
Children of the Princess of Cleves, Régis Sauder, France
Circumstance, Maryam Keshavarz, USA/France
SHORTS PROGRAM: Cupid with Fangs
Blokes, Marialy Rivas, Chile
SHORTS PROGRAM: Mind the Gap
Lost Lake, Zackary Drucker, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: Youth Media Mash-Up
How Could She?, Kevin Rieg, USA
The Sleeping Beauty, Catherine Breillat, France
Yves Saint Laurent l’Amour Fou, Pierre Thoretton, France
JEWISH
Crime After Crime, Yoav Potash, USA
Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Mr. Leonard Cohen, Donald Brittain, Don Owen, Canada
SHORTS PROGRAM: Cupid with Fangs
Red Shirley, Lou Reed, USA
LATIN AMERICAN
Asleep in the Sun, Alejandro Chomski, Argentina
The Colors of the Mountain, Carlos César Arbeláez, Colombia/Panama
Jean Gentil, Laura Amelia Guzmán, Israel Cárdenas, Dominican Republic/Mexico
The Joy, Felipe Bragança, Marina Meliande, Brazil
Nostalgia for the Light, Patricio Guzmán, France/Chile
SHORTS PROGRAM: Cupid with Fangs
Blokes, Marialy Rivas, Chile
The Tiniest Place, Tatiana Huezo, Mexico
Ulysses, Oscar Godoy, Chile/Argentina
A Useful Life, Federico Veiroj, Uruguay
Protoparticles, Chema García Ibarra, Mexico (Playing with A Useful Life)
LOCAL FILMMAKERS/INTEREST
American Teacher, Vanessa Roth, USA
Better This World, Kelly Duane de la Vega, Katie Galloway, USA
Crime After Crime, Yoav Potash, USA
Miss Representation, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, USA
The Selling, Emily Lou, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: Cupid with Fangs
Library of Dust, Ondi Timoner, Robert James, USA
Young Dracula, Alfred Seccombe, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: Do You See What I See?
Play by Play, Carlos Baena, USA
The Snowman, Kelly Wilson, Neil Wrischnik, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: Get with the Program
The Cap, Arjun Rihan, India
Self Portrait as a PowerPoint Proposal for an Amusement Park Ride, Jonn Herschend, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: Mind the Gap
Chromatastic, Kerry Laitala, USA
The D Train, Jay Rosenblatt, USA
Tourist Trap, Skye Thorstenson, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: Youth Media Mash-Up
Come to the Table, Zoe Sainave, USA
Escape from Suburbia, Mayana Bonapart, USA
Fire Bad, Isaac Wolfe, USA
Independence in Sight, Sydney Paige Matterson, Lauren Lindberg, Julian Compagni-Portis, Bonita Tindle, USA
India Export, Raphael Linden, USA/India
The Math Test, Sam Rubin, USA
Z-Man, Nat Talbot, USA
Something Ventured, Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine, USA
!Women Art Revolution, Lynn Hershman Leeson, USA/Canada
MIDDLE EASTERN/ARAB
Children of the Princess of Cleves, Régis Sauder, France
Circumstance, Maryam Keshavarz, USA/France
The Green Wave, Ali Samadi Ahadi, Germany/Iran
Incendies, Denis Villeneuve, Canada/France
Microphone, Ahmad Abdalla, Egypt
MUSIC
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Marie Losier, USA
Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Mr. Leonard Cohen, Donald Brittain, Don Owen, Canada
New Skin for the Old Ceremony
Chelsea Hotel #2, Alex Da Corte, USA
Field Commander Cohen, Theo Angell, USA
Is This What You Wanted, Brent Green, USA
I Tried to Leave You, Kelly Sears, USA
Leaving Greensleeves, Tina Tyrell, USA
Lover Lover Lover, Weston Currie, USA
A Singer Must Die, Lucky Dragons, USA
Take This Longing, Peter Coffin, USA
There Is a War, Sylvan Lanken, Lily Lanken, Canada
Who By Fire, Brett Milspaw, USA
Why Don’t You Try, Christian Holstad, USA
Microphone, Ahmad Abdalla, Egypt
On Tour, Mathieu Amalric, France/Germany
SHORTS PROGRAM: Cupid with Fangs
Red Shirley, Lou Reed, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: Do You See What I See?
Twist & Shout, Yosuke Kihara, Japan
Walk Don’t Run, Yosuke Kihara, Japan
SHORTS PROGRAM: Get with the Program
Hail, Emily Hubley, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: Youth Media Mash-Up
Z-Man, Nat Talbot, USA
Sound of Noise, Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, Sweden/France
POLITICAL/WAR AND CONFLICT
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, Andrei Ujica, Romania
Autumn, Aamir Bashir, India
Better This World, Kelly Duane de la Vega, Katie Galloway, USA
Black Bread, Agustí Villaronga, Spain
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Göran Hugo Olsson, Sweden, USA
Cinema Komunisto, Mila Turajlic, Serbia
The Colors of the Mountain, Carlos César Arbeláez, Colombia/Panama
Crime After Crime, Yoav Potash, USA
The Green Wave, Ali Samadi Ahadi, Germany/Iran
Hands Up, Romain Goupil, France
Incendies, Denis Villeneuve, Canada/France
Kinyarwanda, Alrick Brown, USA/Rwanda
The Light Thief, Aktan Arym Kubat, Kyrgyzstan/Germany
Nostalgia for the Light, Patricio Guzmán, France/Chile
The Redemption of General Butt Naked, Eric Strauss, Daniele Anastasion, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: Cupid With Fangs
Blokes, Marialy Rivas, Chile
The Tiniest Place, Tatiana Huezo, Mexico
Walking Too Fast, Radim Spacek, Czech Republic/Slovak Republic
The Whistleblower, Larysa Kondracki, Canada/Germany
RELIGION/PHILOSOPHY/SPIRITUALITY
Circumstance, Maryam Keshavarz, USA/France
End of Animal, Jo Sung-hee, South Korea
The Future, Miranda July, Germany/USA
Letters from the Big Man, Christopher Munch, USA
The Mill and the Cross, Lech Majewski, Poland/Sweden
Mysteries of Lisbon, Raúl Ruiz, Portugal/France
Nostalgia for the Light, Patricio Guzmán, France/Chile
Position Among the Stars, Leonard Retel Helmrich, Netherlands
Le Quattro Volte, Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy
The Redemption of General Butt Naked, Eric Strauss, Daniele Anastasion, USA
Silent Souls, Aleksei Fedorchenko, Russia
Stake Land, Jim Mickle, USA
Tabloid, Errol Morris, USA
Year Without a Summer, Tan Chui Mui, Malaysia
WOMEN DIRECTORS
American Teacher, Vanessa Roth, USA
The Arbor, Clio Barnard, England
At Ellen’s Age, Pia Marais, Germany
Attenberg, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Marie Losier, USA
Better This World, Kelly Duane de la Vega, Katie Galloway, USA
Blessed Events, Isabelle Stever, Germany
Cinema Komunisto, Mila Turajlic, Serbia
Circumstance, Maryam Keshavarz, USA/France
The Dish & the Spoon, Alison Bagnall, USA
Foreign Parts, Véréna Paravel, J.P. Sniadecki, USA/France
The Future, Miranda July, Germany/USA
The Good Life, Eva Mulvad, Denmark
Hot Coffee, Susan Saladoff, USA
Jean Gentil, Laura Amelia Guzmán, Israel Cárdenas, Dominican Republic/Mexico
The Joy, Felipe Bragança, Marina Meliande, Brazil
The Last Buffalo Hunt, Lee Anne Schmitt, USA
Let the Wind Carry Me, Chiang Hsiu-chiung, Kwan Pun-leung, Taiwan
Living on Love Alone, Isabelle Czajka, France
Marathon Boy, Gemma Atwal, England/USA/India
Meek’s Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt, USA
Miss Representation, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, USA
New Skin for the Old Ceremony
I Tried to Leave You, Kelly Sears, USA
Leaving Greensleeves, Tina Tyrell, USA
There Is a War, Sylvan Lanken, Lily Lanken, Canada
Pink Saris, Kim Longinotto, England/India
The Place in Between, Sarah Bouyain, France/Burkina Faso
The Redemption of General Butt Naked, Eric Strauss, Daniele Anastasion, USA
The Selling, Emily Lou, USA
She Monkeys, Lisa Aschan, Sweden
SHORTS PROGRAM: Cupid with Fangs
Blokes, Marialy Rivas, Chile
Library of Dust, Ondi Timoner, Robert James, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: The Deep End
I Swim Now, Sarah Biagini, USA
Last Resort, Katherin McInnis, USA
A Little Prayer (H-E-L-P), Louise Bourque, Canada
Minong, I Slept, Vera Brunner-Sung, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: Do You See What I See?
Jillian Dillon, Yvette Edery, Germany/USA
The Snowman, Kelly Wilson, Neil Wrischnik, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: Get with the Program
Get with the Program, Jennifer Drummond Deutrom, USA
Hail, Emily Hubley, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: Irresistible Impulse
The Home Front, Phie Ambo, Denmark
Into the Middle of Nowhere, Anne Francis Ewert, Scotland/England
The Strange Ones, Christopher Radcliff, Lauren Volkstein, USA/France
SHORTS PROGRAM: Mind the Gap
Chromatastic, Kerry Laitala, USA
Once it started it could not end otherwise, Kelly Sears, USA
SHORTS PROGRAM: Youth Media Mash-Up
Come to the Table, Zoe Sainave, USA
Escape from Suburbia, Mayana Bonapart, USA
Independence in Sight, Sydney Paige Matterson, Lauren Lindberg, Julian Compagni-Portis, Bonita Tindle, USA
The Sleeping Beauty, Catherine Breillat, France
Something Ventured, Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine, USA
The Tiniest Place, Tatiana Huezo, Mexico
The Whistleblower, Larysa Kondracki, Canada/Germany
!Women Art Revolution, Lynn Hershman Leeson, USA/Canada
Year Without a Summer, Tan Chui Mui, Malaysia
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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.