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[ TABLE OF CONTENTS ]
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Big Nights
World Cinema Spotlight
Information about the Festival’s major events
including Opening Night, Closing Night,
Centerpiece, Film Society Awards Night and more.
Designed to call attention to a current trend in
international filmmaking, this year’s World Cinema
Spotlight takes a special close look at Latin America.
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Awards & Tributes
Competitions & Prizes
SFIFF honors cinema legends with onstage tributes,
screenings and live Q&As.
SFIFF will award nearly $40,000 in cash prizes in
more than a dozen categories highlighting excellence
in narrative and documentary filmmaking.
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Live & Onstage
SFIFF’s signature program featuring once-in-alifetime cinematic events with live music, dynamic
onstage performances and more.
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Salons and Master Classes
Unique opportunities for audiences to delve more
deeply into the art of cinema through in-depth
discussions and presentations by Festival guests.
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Film Selections
The SFIFF lineup broken down by category: New
Directors, Documentaries, World Cinema, The Late
Show, Shorts and more.
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Films
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Event Schedule
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37 About Us
38 Filmmaker360
39 Education
40 Membership
41 Donors
42 Attending the Festival
43 Festival Map
44 Title Index
45 Country Index
46 - 48 Sponsors
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It is an honor to be the organization’s new
Executive Director and to celebrate the 57th San
Francisco International Film Festival with you. I
look forward to sharing the Bay Area’s
enormous passion for cinema over the coming
weeks. Many of this year’s finest films feature
throughout the Festival. I urge you to sample
these remarkable stories from around the world
and closer to home and discuss them with our
visiting filmmakers and fellow film lovers. That
electrifying feeling of discovering a new cultural
voice that speaks to your heart is among life’s
great pleasures. We are grateful to our board,
members, and donors for their help in making
the Festival such a key force in the culture of our
community.
Noah Cowan
Executive Director
San Francisco Film Society
Filmmaker360, our filmmaker support and
funding initiative, has become a leading national
force in creating the most evocative and admired
independent films of recent years, including
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Fruitvale
Station. With a record six features in this year’s
program, Filmmaker360 has emphatically put
its stamp on American independent cinema and
the Bay Area on the filmmaking map. Our
partnerships with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation and the Jenerosity Foundation make these
programs possible.
[ WELCOME ]
Hello Film Society supporters!
We invite you to not only enjoy the films at this
year’s Festival but also consider supporting the
Film Society and its programs as a member or
donor. Let’s grow our filmmaking and film loving
community together.
The Film Society’s commitment to great
storytelling continues well after the Festival’s
Closing Night. Our celebrated Education
program builds the next generation of film
lovers, filmmakers and cultural thinkers in the
Bay Area and beyond through an array of
programs, screenings and workshops. If you
have young people in your life, I strongly
encourage you to check out our child-focused
Festival programming, which gives an inspiring
taste of our year-round offerings. We also thank
our key donors in this area who make our work
with children possible.
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[ BIG NIGHTS ]
OPENING NIGHT
CENTERPIECE Thursday, April 24
Saturday, May 3
The 57th San Francisco International Film Festival opens with a significant
cinematic event, special guests and a festive celebration with live
entertainment, dancing, food and drinks.
At the midpoint of the Festival join us for a storied event featuring a specially
chosen followed by a chic lounge party at one of San Francisco’s hottest
nightspots.
The Two Faces of January
Hossein Amini
THURSDAY, APRIL 24
7:00 pm Castro Theatre
429 Castro Street (near Market)
PALO ALTO
Gia Coppola
SATURDAY, MAY 3
7:30 pm Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
1881 Post Street (at Fillmore)
Celebrated screenwriter Hossein Amini (The Wings of the Dove, Drive) delivers a
stylish directorial debut, with this adaptation of a Patricia Highsmith suspense
thriller gorgeously filmed on location in Greece and Turkey. In 1962, a well-heeled
couple (Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst) come to know an American
expatriate acting as an Athens tour guide (Oscar Isaac). But an incident at the
couple’s hotel puts all three in danger and creates a precarious interdependence
between them. (UK/USA/France 2014, 97 min)
Filmmaker Gia Coppola expertly adapts James Franco’s book Palo Alto, about
teenagers shifting from childhood innocence to adult responsibility. This richly
atmospheric ensemble drama features a terrific cast, including Emma Roberts,
Jack Kilmer and Franco himself. The film gives the passion and anxiety of
teenage life an undeniably cinematic glow. (USA 2014, 98 min)
PARTY
9:00 pm
Public Works
161 Erie Street (at Mission Street)
The San Francisco International Film Festival will celebrate Opening Night at
the ground-breaking new event space Public Works, situated in San Francisco’s
famed Mission district. This will be a night to remember as we kick off the 57th
Annual International Film Festival. Join us and some of San Francisco’s finest
restaurants and beverage companies to eat, drink and dance the night away.
You must be 21+ to attend the party.
Film Only $35 members, $40 general
Limited quantity available.
PARTY ONly $40 members, $50 general
FILM & PARTY $65 members, $80 general
Includes film and party, sponsored drinks, entertainment and light hors
d’oeuvres.
VIP FILM & PARTY $125 members, $125 general
Includes reserved seating at the film, admission to the exclusive VIP Lounge
and sponsored drinks and hors d’oeuvres.
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Sponsored by:
PARTY
9:00 pm
Roe
651 Howard Street (Between Hawthorne and 3rd)
Join us at Roe, San Francisco’s premier boutique nightclub and lounge
destination. Indulge in cool cocktails, delicious hors d’oeuvres and the latest
beats. You must be 21+ to attend the party.
d’oeuvres.
CLOSING NIGHT Thursday, May 1
Thursday, May 8
Film Society Awards Night is one of the city’s most highly anticipated events.
Benefitting the San Francisco Film Society’s Exhibition, Education, and
Filmmaker360 programs, this lively and memorable evening honors the
directing, acting and screenwriting award recipients with peer tributes and
career highlights.
Attend a major new film and enjoy a Closing Night party with special guests to
celebrate the wrap of another great Festival.
2014 RECIPIENTS
Richard Linklater
Recipient of the 2014 Founder’s Directing Award, given in memory of Irving M.
Levin, the visionary founder of the San Francisco International Film Festival in
1957. Made possible by Film Society board member Fred M. Levin and Nancy
Livingston.
Peter J. Owens Award
The Peter J. Owens Award for excellence in film acting is made possible by a
grant from the Peter J. Owens Trust at the San Francisco Foundation. Gary
Shapiro and Scott Owens, trustees.
Kanbar Award
The Kanbar Award for excellence in screenwriting is made possible through
the generosity of Film Society board member Maurice Kanbar. The Kanbar
Award acknowledges the crucial role that screenwriting plays in the
creation of great films.
AWARDS NIGHT GALA
6:00 pm VIP cocktail reception with celebrity guests
7:00 pm Dinner and awards program
The Grand Ballroom at the Regency Center
1290 Sutter Street, San Francisco
Individuals $625 / $1,250 / $1,500 / $2,500
Tables $5,000 / $10,000 / $15,000 / $25,000
Film Society Awards Night is co-chaired by Victoria Raiser and Todd Traina.
To book your table or make a donation, please call 415-561-5028 or email
[email protected]. For all other ticket information, please visit
festival.sffs.org
Alex of Venice
Chris Messina
THURSDAY, MAY 8
[ BIG NIGHTS ]
FILM SOCIETY AWARDS NIGHT
Actor Chris Messina creates a winning mix of wistful comedy and heartfelt
drama in this tale of accepting the unexpected. Alex (Mary Elizabeth Winstead)
is an environmental lawyer whose job often keeps her away from the home she
shares with her son, husband (Messina) and actor father (Don Johnson, in a
knockout performance). When her husband rebels against being a stay-athome dad and takes a time out from the marriage, Alex’s world quickly
becomes very complicated. (USA 2014, 87 min)
PARTY
9:00 pm
The Chapel
777 Valencia Street (between 18th Street and 19th Street)
Mix and mingle with a movie-loving crowd at the Closing Night party at San
Francisco’s finest new addition, The Chapel. Dance the night away while
indulging in delicious hors d’oeuvres and cocktails at a party inspired by the
Closing Night film. You must be 21+ to attend the party.
PARTY ONly $40 members, $50 general
d’oeuvres.
VIP FILM & PARTY $125 members, $125 general
Includes reserved seating at the film, admission to the exclusive VIP Lounge
and sponsored drinks and hors d’oeuvres.
Black tie optional. No photography please.
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[ AWARDS & TRIBUTES ]
FOUNDER’S DIRECTING AWARD PETER J. OWENS AWARD
An Evening with Richard Linklater
RECIPIENT TO BE ANNOUNCED
DATE, TIME, LOCATION TBD
FRIDAY, MAY 2
$20 members, $25 general
One of the most profound and prolific American
independent filmmakers of the last 20 years,
Richard Linklater first burst onto the scene with his
scrappy time capsule of Austin weirdness, Slacker
(SFIFF 1991). Since then, Linklater’s work has
graced international film festival lineups, helped
launch the careers of a number of prominent actors
(Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, Parker Posey)
and garnered several Oscar nominations. His
much–celebrated new film Boyhood is his 18th
feature film. The evening will include a clip reel of
career highlights and an onstage interview followed
by a screening of Boyhood.
BOYHOOD
Richard Linklater
Filming over the course of 12 years, Linklater
and his cast depict a young man’s journey from a
6-year-old boy to 18-year-old college freshman.
The resulting film “has no precedent” according
to the Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy.
“Never has the long arc of the journey from
childhood to college been portrayed as cohesively
and convincingly as Richard Linklater has done.”
(USA 2014, 162 min)
Join the Festival for a very special award night
celebrating the career of one of cinema’s great
acting talents. Named for the longtime San
Francisco benefactor of arts and charitable
organizations, Peter J. Owens (1936–1991), this
award honors an actor whose work exemplifies
brilliance, independence and integrity. The evening
will include a clip reel of career highlights and an
onstage interview with the artist, followed by a film
screening. Check festival.sffs.org for updates.
Select Previous Recipients
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006 2005 2004 2003 2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
Harrison Ford
Judy Davis
Terence Stamp
Robert Duvall
Robert Redford
Maria Bello
Robin Williams
Ed Harris
Joan Allen
Chris Cooper
Dustin Hoffman
Kevin Spacey
Stockard Channing
Winona Ryder
Sean Penn
Nicolas Cage
Annette Bening
Film Screening
The evening includes a special screening of a
representative film from the career of the honoree.
Photo: 2013 Peter J. Owens Award Recipient
Harrison Ford
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PERSISTENCE OF VISION AWARD
MEL NOVIKOFF AWARD
RECIPIENT TO BE ANNOUNCED
DATE, TIME, LOCATION TBD
An Afternoon with Isaac Julien
An Afternoon with David Thomson
SUNDAY, APRIL 27
SUNDAY MAY 4
Established in 1997, the Golden Gate Persistence of
Vision Award each year honors the achievement of
a filmmaker whose main body of work falls outside
the realm of narrative feature filmmaking. Join
Isaac Julien for an in-depth onstage conversation
with B. Ruby Rich and a screening of his latest
work, Ten Thousand Waves.
This year’s recipient of the Mel Novikoff Award—
named after the legendary San Francisco exhibitor
and bestowed upon an individual or institution
whose work has enhanced the film-going public’s
appreciation of world cinema—is writer and critic
David Thomson. Join us for a lively conversation
with Thomson and author Geoff Dyer followed by a
screening of a film selected by Thomson: Preston
Sturges’s The Lady Eve.
The Kanbar Award for excellence in screenwriting
acknowledges the crucial role that strong
screenwriting plays in the creation of great films.
The evening will include a clip reel of career
highlights and an onstage interview, followed by a
film screening. The award is made possible through
the generosity of Film Society board member
Maurice Kanbar
Previous Recipients
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006 2005 Eric Roth
David Webb Peoples
Frank Pierson
James Schamus
James Toback
Robert Towne
Peter Morgan
Jean-Claude Carrière
Paul Haggis
FILM SCREEENING
The evening includes a special screening of a
representative film from the career of the honoree.
Photo: 2013 Kanbar Award Recipient Eric Roth
with Elvis Mitchell
Moving fluidly between film, television, academia
and the art world, filmmaker and installation artist
Isaac Julien combines a fine art background and
inspiration from current issues and events to create
unique and evocative work for the screen. While
studying painting and fine art film at St Martin’s
School of Art from which he graduated in 1984,
Isaac Julien co-founded “Sankofa Film and Video
Collective” in which he was active from 1983–1992.
Julien was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001
for his film The Long Road to Mazatlán (1999),
made in collaboration with Javier de Frutos, and
Vagabondia (2000), choreographed by Javier de
Frutos. Earlier works include Frantz Fanon: Black
Skin, White Mask (SFIFF 1997); Young Soul Rebels
(1991), which was awarded the Semaine de la
Critique Prize at the Cannes Film Festival the same
year; and the acclaimed poetic documentary
Looking for Langston (1989).
Ten Thousand Waves
Isaac Julien
Originally inspired by the death of Chinese cockle
pickers in Morecambe Bay, Julien’s immersive
film installation, commissioned by MoMA,
interweaves contemporary Chinese culture with
its ancient myths. Shown here as a composite, the
piece features the poetry of Wang Ping, calligraphy
by Gong Fagen and appearances by Maggie
Cheung and Zhao Tao. (UK 2010, 50 min)
[ AWARDS & TRIBUTES ]
KANBAR AWARD
David Thomson has been called “probably the
greatest living film critic and historian” and “the
greatest living writer on the movies.” He is the
author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film,
which topped Sight & Sound’s 2010 poll of
international critics and writers as the best film
book of all time, as well as more than 20 works of
both fiction and nonfiction, including Moments that
Made the Movies; The Big Screen: The Story of the
Movies; Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick;
Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles; The Whole
Equation: A History of Hollywood; “Have You Seen
. . . ?”: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films;
Suspects; and Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes: A
Life and a Story. He has contributed regularly to the
Independent, the London Guardian, Film Comment
and the New Republic and wrote and delivered the
BBC radio series Life at 24 Frames a Second.
The Lady Eve
Preston Sturges
A handsome but stupid heir and a delectable
con artist enjoy a shipboard romance until he
drops her when he learns she’s a grifter, setting
the stage for comic confrontation when she
reappears in his hometown in another guise.
The phenomenal Preston Sturges elicits brilliant
performances from a cast headed by Henry
Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck in this hilarious
screwball classic. (USA 1941, 94 min)
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Academy
Award
nominee, K.K.
Barrett engages
in a wide-ranging
conversation covering his
acclaimed career in production design on
such films as Her (2013), Where the Wild
Things Are (2009), I Huckabees (2004) and
Lost in Translation (2003). Barrett’s wildly
inventive approach to Spike Jonze’s surreal
Being John Malkovich (1999) introduced his
style to moviegoers. He’s worked on all of
Jonze’s subsequent films and has
collaborated with Sofia Coppola, Michel
Gondry and David O. Russell, where he has
created the visual styles of period pieces,
puppet animatronics, quasi-sci-fi and
understated dramas. Barrett, a painter,
sculptor and musician (he is drummer of
synthpunk band the Screamers), has also
designed numerous iconic music videos,
including Smashing Pumpkin’s “Tonight,
Tonight” and Beck’s “The New Pollution.”
He will be engaged by Derek Fagerstrom
(managing editor Zoetrope: All-Story and
co-creative director Pop-Up Magazine),
where they will informally wrangle over film
art, creative processes, inspirations and
favorite moments in production design.
Stand Up Planet grew out of comic Hasan
Minhaj’s recognition of several facts: “The
world is full of struggle. Comedy comes
from adversity. This must be one hilarious
planet.” So, Minhaj embarks on a global
journey to meet a new generation of
comic rebels changing the world one joke
at a time. He visits two of the world’s
harshest places—Mumbai, India and the
neighborhoods of Johannesburg, South
Africa—connecting with their burgeoning,
thriving comedy scenes. Minhaj investigates
how humor might function as a critical
force, taking on some of our toughest
global issues such as racism, sexism,
health crises and economic disparities.
Minhaj and local favorite Nato Green
precede the Festival’s presentation of Stand
Up Planet with live, politically minded
comedy sets. Minhaj, who’s appeared on
MTV’s Failosophy, Arrested Development
and Chelsea Lately and has his own
YouTube series The Truth with Hasan
Minhaj, is the perfect host for Stand Up
Planet. He’s a genuinely curious and
generous man who wants to be in on jokes
the world over. Nato Green, creator of Iron
Comic, is currently in the group The
Business. His commentaries have appeared
in the Huffington Post and San Francisco
Bay Guardian. He wrote for Totally Biased
with W. Kamau Bell and toured with Bell and
Janine Brito as Laughter Against the Machine.
Reaching back into her musical catalog, Thao
Nguyen and her band the Get Down Stay Down
will play live, accompanying classic,
strange and funny films from the
silent era, including: Charles
Chaplin’s anarchic The
Pawnshop, Robert Florey
and Slavko Vorkapich’s
groundbreaking The
Life and Death of 9413:
A Hollywood Extra,
alchemical animation
by Harry Smith and
classic newsreels. The
evening also features
original short videos that
Nguyen made in collaboration
with filmmaker Lauren Tabak, including one
created especially for this event. As anyone who
has had the pleasure of seeing the Get Down
Stay Down live knows, Nguyen is a force of
nature, a ferocious guitarist with the wild and
beautiful voice of an angry angel. After taking a
break from music to focus on her relationship to
her community, a hiatus during which she
became a member of the advocacy group the
California Coalition of Women Prisoners,
Nguyen roared back with We The Common. The
2013 album bore the fruit of an artistically and
personally transformative year with its incisive
songwriting, diverse musical styles and strong
social messaging. In recordings and on stage
her juggernaut-like performances speak to
resiliency, hope and infectious, catalytic energy.
This promises to be a special night, as she and
the band perform live to a program of films for
the very first time.
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7:00
9:15
8:00
A Conversation with K.K. Barrett
Stand up Planet
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
$13 member, $15 general
Castro Theatre
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San Francisco’s beloved nonfiction
storytelling series returns to the Festival
for a special night of film industry–themed
stories. The rules are deceptively simple.
Tell a true 10-minute tale to an audience of
strangers as if you’re speaking with a good
friend. The results vary wildly, but are
uniformly unforgettable. Arline Klatte and
Beth Lisick, the show’s cofounders and
hosts, move the night along with charm
and wit. The night showcases six
storytellers, each accompanied video. As
of press time, the lineup of participants
features beloved members of the film
production scene in San Francisco. Sara
Dosa is producer on numerous films
including Inequality for All (SFIFF 2013).
Her debut feature length documentary,
The Last Season, receives its world
premiere at the Festival on Friday, April 25.
Michael Jacobs is director of Festival short
The High Five and documentary feature An
Audience of One (SFIFF 2007). Xandra
Castleton and David Munro are co-creators
of Stand Up Planet, also screening in the
Festival. All give us their take on the
wonderful, trying, funny and frustrating
world of filmmaking. Visit festival.sffs.org
for updates on storytellers at this informal
bean-spilling session.
Stephin Merritt (The Magnetic
Fields) returns with a new
score to accompany Tod
Browning’s (Freaks,
Dracula) classic The
Unknown starring Lon
Chaney and Joan Crawford.
Alonzo (Chaney) an ostensibly
armless circus performer, can
do anything with his feet that
most do with their hands! But he
carries a terrible secret. Not only
does Alonzo possess hands, he uses them
to strangle people. Therefore, although
police know their murderer has an extra
thumb, they fail to question Alonzo, whom
they believe doesn’t have any thumbs, let
alone three. When Alonzo falls for fellow
carny Nanon (Crawford) and realizes
potential intimacy between them might
reveal his hands and thumbs, he is faced
with a horrible decision. Those who attended
Merritt’s wonderful performance
accompanying the strange silent film
adaptation of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues
Under the Sea (2010) might remember he
hinted at playing live with a trio of films over
the years at SFIFF. How did we become the
lucky ones? Perhaps it’s the Festival’s
acronym—SFIFF. Merritt, whose band the
6ths is named for the most difficult word to
pronounce in English has an affinity for the
literally unspeakable. The 6ths two album
titles, Hyacinths and Thistles and Wasps
Nests, present equally vexing pronunciation
conundrums, making uttering “SFIFF” seem
practically possible.
M O N D A Y, M A Y 5
T U E S D A Y, M A Y 6
9:15
8:00
Porchlight
Stephin Merritt with the Unknown
Castro Theatre
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[ SALONS & MASTER CLASSES ]
Master Classes SFIFF Master Classes are a unique opportunity for
audiences to engage with special Festival guests
and get an insider’s look at intriguing cinema
subjects. Classes are open to film lovers and
filmmakers alike.
Dolby labs: THE SOUND OF MOVIES
Saturday, April 26, 12:15 pm
New People Cinema
1746 Post Street (at Webster)
$15 members / $20 general
Ages 8 and up
Angus McGilpin, director of content development at
Dolby Laboratories, and a guest sound designer will
explore the art and history of sound in film—from
how it is created and designed in the mixing room
to how it is experienced by audiences in the theater.
Using their animated short film Silent as a guide,
they will examine the role of sound in the
filmmaking process and how sound and picture
work together to tell stories on screen.
Funny or die: Anatomy of a comedy short
Friday, May 2, 4:00 pm
Producers, writers, and directors from the
award-winning destination for comedy on the web,
Funny Or Die, will offer insight into how they create
their online video content. For aspiring writers and
directors who are passionate about comedic
filmmaking— or anyone interested in what
generates laughs online—this is a chance to gain
real-world experience in how to produce and
market short form comedy videos for the web.
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PAINTING WITH PIXAR:
A WORKSHOP FOR KIDS
Sunday, May 4, 10:00 am–1:00 pm
Walt Disney Family Museum
104 Montgomery Street, The Presidio
Ticket price does not include museum admission
Ages 10–16
Join Pixar digital matte painter Paul Topolos (The
Incredibles, Cars, Up) for a hands-on look at the work
of the art department in the production of animated
films. Topolos will use his own work and the Walt
Disney Family Museum’s Mary Blair exhibit as sources
of inspiration, and students will learn how to create
their own works of art, experimenting with color theory
and design through digital hands-on painting activities.
Using the Film Society’s new online platform
FilmEd., we will explore some of the resources and
strategies available to make educational outreach
possible and productive.
HOW DO WE KNOW IF WE’RE
MAKING A DIFFERENCE?
Why Filmmakers, Funders and Evaluators
Should Talk About Impact
Monday, April 28, 5:00 pm
SFFS FilmHouse
1426 Fillmore Street, Suite 300 (near O’Farrell)
SFIFF Salons are singular, in-depth conversations led
by film scholars, filmmakers, and industry
professionals about major film genres and issues. Not
a lecture, but a chance to be part of the conversation.
What’s behind the big push to measure the
influence of media? Is it to attract and please
funders? Improve engagement strategies? Prove
the power that film brings to social change? Join
Active Voice and the Active Voice Lab for Story &
Strategy for an interactive session about how
different kinds of films can help fuel different
kinds of movements. Using Festival films as
examples, we’ll take an early peek at a new lexicon
that creatives, funders, and evaluators can use to
communicate intent and expectations of which
measurement methods might tell us what we
really want to know.
FUTURE AUDIENCE
THE $11 BILLION YEAR
Engaging Young Viewers Through
Educational Outreach
From Sundance to the Oscars, An Inside Look at
the Changing Hollywood System
tuesday, april 29, 6:30 PM
SFFS FilmHouse
1426 Fillmore Street, Suite 300 (near O’Farrell)
Monday, May 5, 3:45 pm
Engaging young people in a classroom environment
is a highly effective way to reach them where they
live and learn and to provide an educational context
for issue-driven films. Join members of the SFFS
Education team, Bay Area educators, and
filmmakers Kat Candler (Hellion) and Marcia
Jarmel (Havana Curveball) for an in-depth
discussion of how and why to get films into schools.
Using her new book The $11 Billion Year as a
starting point, film critic/reporter Anne Thompson
will moderate a spirited discussion about the
future of the film industry with Co-Founder &
Chief Content Office of Fandor Jonathan Marlow,
Gary Meyer of Telluride Film Festival and Eat
Drinks Films, and SFFS Executive Director Noah
Cowan. A book signing will follow the salon.
Presented in partnership with the Walt Disney
Family Museum
SALONS
CINEMA BY THE BAY
New Voices in Latin American Cinema
A celebration of the passion and innovation of Bay
Area filmmaking, Cinema by the Bay features
exceptional new work by local artists and provides a
window into Bay Area film culture and practice at its
best. This program section includes features,
shorts, narratives and documentaries from
well-known and emerging local talent.
Supported by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Festival’s World Cinema Spotlight calls
attention to a current trend in international filmmaking, bringing to light hot topics, reinvigorated genres,
underappreciated filmmakers and national cinemas.
It’s been more than 10 years since Amores Perros (2000) and the first wave of New Argentine Cinema.
While it’s too soon, perhaps, to classify the titles in the Festival’s World Cinema Spotlight as a “next wave” or
“new wave,” it is very apparent that there is a lot of cinematic magic happening south of the border. Strong
new voices continue to surface from Argentina and Mexico and are presented here alongside assured and
unique offerings from emerging filmmakers from countries less often represented on screen: Uruguay,
Venezuela and Costa Rica (appearing in the program for the first time in the Festival’s 57-year history).
Films in the World Cinema Spotlight:
All About the Feathers,
Neto Villalobos, Costa Rica,
Page: 16
The Militant,
Manolo Nieto, Uruguay
Page: 28
The Amazing Catfish,
Claudia Sainte-Luce, Mexico
Page: 16
Bad Hair,
Mariana Rondón, Venezuela/Peru
Page: 17
History of Fear,
Benjamín Naishtat, Argentina/France
Page: 22
World Cinema Spotlight Sponsor
Angels (short)
Barn Dance (short)
Bright Mirror (short)
The Claustrum (short)
Cookie Wars (short)
Cosmic Flower Unfolding (short)
The Dam Keeper (short)
DeLuce 2: Architectura (short)
Entr’Acte (short)
Entropic Apogee (short)
Epitaph (short)
Fat Chance (short)
The High Five (short)
The Last Season
No One but Lydia (short)
The Overnighters
Point Reyes, CA (short)
Bay Area Girls Rock Camp (short)
Santa Cruz del Islote (short)
Sin Madre (short)
Spacetime (short)
[ WORLD CINEMA SPOT LIGHT]
world cinema spotlight
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[competitions & PRIZES ]
The Golden Gate Awards were established to recognize and promote excellence in independent and world cinema. Selected from a wide array of entries and
evaluated by our dedicated group of festival screeners, the films in competition represent the best of international and Bay Area talent in documentary features,
shorts and youth-produced works. An independent jury of film professionals from various fields screens the international selections during the festival. The
winners will be announced at the Golden Gate Awards on May 7.
2014 Golden Gate Award Screeners
Jennie-Marie Adler
Michael Arago
Julia Barbosa
Sarah Berkovich
Joe Bowman
Amalia Bradstreet
Yael Bridge
Lizzy Brooks
Oris Buckner
Maïa Cybelle Carpenter
Karl Cohen
Teresa Concepcion
Adam S. Cuttler
Sergio De La Torre
Michelle Devereaux
Jessica Dillon
Cassandra Dreher
Jesse Dubus
Glenn Dunks
N’jeri Eaton
Jeffrey Edalatpour
Veronika Ferdman
Nancy Fishman
Tereza Flaxman
Sherry Gendelman
Pam Grady
Lisa Green
Gilbert Guerrero
Carter Gunn
James Gunn
Adam Hartzell
Helen Hood Scheer
Candice Jacobs
Mary Kalin-Casey
Athena Kalkopoulou
Cynthia Kane
Annisa Kau
Keary Kensinger
Barbara Klutinis
Gustavus Kundahl
Monique Kundahl
Kathy Lang
Ryan Lee
Kara Leslie
Alexandra Leviloff
Cynthia J. Lew
Frako Loden
Michael LoPresti
Leah LoSchiavo
Gina Margillo
Tamara Melnik
Courtney Merage
Becky Mertens
Peter Moore
Aldo Mora-Blanco
Deepa Nair
Julia Nelson
Misa Oyama
Sylvia Paret
Joanne Parsont
Yoander Perdomo
Karolina Peysakhov
Craig Phillips
Lucia Pier
Kathleen Quillian
Jeremy Quist
Monica Racic
Paola Rojas
Rita Roti
Jesse Russell
Hilda Schmelling
Hannah Schulman
Joy-Marie Scott Branecky
Erika Shershun
Tim Sika
Gail Silva
Galina Stoletneya
Harriet Storm
Emily Supple
Joslyn Thoresen
Michele Turnure-Salleo
Sara Vizcarrondo
Kathryn Washington
Gavrilah Wells
Trinity West
Sharon Wood
Caleb Yang
Benjamin Zweig
Keith Zwölfer
NEW DIRECTORS PRIZE
The New Directors Prize is awarded to the director of a debut narrative feature that is an Official Selection of the San Francisco International Film Festival. It is
accompanied by a $10,000 cash award. Films selected to compete for the New Directors Prize are first narrative features that exhibit a unique artistic sensibility or
vision. An independent jury of film professionals from various fields screens the international selections during the Festival. The New Directors Prize will be
announced at the Golden Gate Awards on May 7.
2014 NEW DIRECTORS PRIZE OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
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The Amazing Catfish
Claudia Sainte-Luce, Mexico
The Dune
Yossi Aviram, France/Israel
The Blue Wave
Zeynep Dadak, Merve Kayan, Turkey/
Germany/Netherlands/Greece
History of Fear
Benjamín Naishtat, Argentina/
France/Germany/Uruguay/Qatar
Salvation Army
Abdellah Taïa, Morocco
Difret
Zeresenay Berhane Mehari, Ethiopia
Manos Sucias
Josef Wladyka, USA/Colombia
South Is Nothing
Fabio Mollo, Italy/France
Of Horses and Men
Benedikt Erlingsson, Iceland/
Germany
Trap Street
Vivian Qu, China
White Shadow
Noaz Deshe, Italy/Germany/Tanzania
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Coast of Death
Lois Patiño, Spain
The Overnighters (Bay Area)
Jesse Moss, USA
Soul Food Stories
Tonislav Hristov, Bulgaria/Finland
Three Letters from China
Luc Schaedler, Switzerland
The Last Season (Bay Area)
Sara Dosa, USA
Return to Homs
Talal Derki, Syria/Germany
Stop the Pounding Heart
Roberto Minervini, USA/Belgium/Italy
We Come as Friends
Hubert Sauper, France/Austria
ANIMATED SHORT
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
NARRATIVE SHORTS
NEW VISIONS
A Very Large Increase in the Size,
Amount, or Importance of Something
Over a Very Short Period of Time
Max Hattler, Russia/UK/Germany
Barn Dance (Bay Area)
John Haptas, Kris Samuelson, Amy
Seiwert, USA
Angels (Bay Area)
Jim Granato, USA
All Vows
Bill Morrison, USA
The Birds’ Blessing
Serge Mirzabekiants, Belgium
The Claustrum (Bay Area)
Jay Rosenblatt, USA
Deserted
Yoav Hornung, Israel
Entropic Apogee (Bay Area)
Bill Manolios, USA
Santa Cruz del Islote (Bay Area)
Luke Lorentzen, USA
Little Block of Cement with
Disheveled Hair Containing the Sea
Jorge López Navarrete, Spain
Fat Chance (Bay Area)
Jeanne C. Finley, USA
Zima
Cristina Picchi, Russia
Mystery
Chema García Ibarra, Spain
Cosmic Flower Unfolding (Bay Area)
Benjamin Ridgway, USA
Drunker Than a Skunk
Bill Plympton, USA
Gloria Victoria
Theodore Ushev, Canada
Little Vulvah and Her Clitoral
Awareness
Sara Koppel, Denmark
The High Five (Bay Area)
Michael Jacobs, USA
Re:Awakenings
Bill Morrison, USA
FAMILY FILMS
No One but Lydia (Bay Area)
Rob Richert, USA
The Master’s Voice: Caveirao
Guilherme Marcondes, France/USA/
Brazil
The Dam Keeper (Bay Area)
Robert Kondo, Dice Tsutsumi, USA
So You’ve Grown Attached
Kate Tsang, USA
The Missing Scarf
Eoin Duffy, Ireland
I Want My Hat Back
Galen Fott, USA
The Rancher
Kelly Sears, USA
My Mom Is an Airplane
Yulia Aronova, Russia/USA
Stop the Show (aka WAR)
Max Hattler, UK
The Numberlys
William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg,
USA
Subconscious Password
Chris Landreth, Canada
Sprout
Yoon Ga-eun, South Korea
[golden gate awards ]
2014 Golden Gate Awards Official Selections
Numbers & Friends
Alexander Carson, Canada
Spacetime (Bay Area)
Ryan Wicks, USA
Walking Grainy
François Vogel, France
YOUTH WORKS
Cookie Wars (Bay Area)
Natasha Lasky, USA
Epitaph (Bay Area)
Charles Blecker, USA
Lunch with Yoshi
Chaitanya Gopinath, Thailand
Bay Area Girls Rock Camp (Bay Area)
Lily Yu, USA
Sin Madre (Bay Area)
Buffy Almendares, USA
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[ FILM SELECTIONS ]
NEW DIRECTORS
LIVE & ONSTAGE
WORLD CINEMA
DOCUMENTARIES
All About the Feathers
The Amazing Catfish
Bad Hair
Belle
The Blue Wave
Dear White People
Difret
The Double
The Dune
Eastern Boys
Harmony Lessons
Hellion
History of Fear
Last Weekend
Little Accidents
Manos Sucias
Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy
The Militant
Obvious Child
Of Horses and Men
Salvation Army
The Skeleton Twins
South Is Nothing
Standing Aside, Watching
Tonnerre
Trap Street
White Shadow
A Conversation with KK Barrett
Porchlight
Stand Up Planet
Stephin Merritt with The Unknown
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down
Abuse of Weakness
All that Jazz
American Dreams in China
Bauyr (Little Brother)
Blind Dates
Borgman
Child of God
Chinese Puzzle
Club Sandwich
Frank
If You Don’t, I Will
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Manila in the Claws of Light
Manuscripts Don’t Burn
Night Moves
Norte, the End of History
Our Sunhi
Ping Pong Summer
Pioneer
Queen Margot; The Director’s Cut
Reconstruction
Stray Dogs
Tamako in Moratorium
Tangerines
Tip Top
Tracks
The Trip to Italy
We Are the Best!
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or
Metabolism
Young & Beautiful
Yves Saint Laurent
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Art and Craft
Burt’s Buzz
Cesar’s Last Fast
Coast of Death *
The Dog
Fed Up
Freedom Summer
The Great Museum
Happiness
Heaven Adores You
Impossible Light
The Last Season *
Manakamana
No No: A Dockumentary
The Other One: The Long, Strange
Trip of Bob Weir
The Overnighters *
Return to Homs *
School of Babel
The Seventh Walk
Soul Food Stories *
Stop the Pounding Heart *
A Story of Children and Film
Supermensch: The Legend of
Shep Gordon
Three Letters from China *
20,000 Days on Earth
We Come As Friends *
What Now? Remind Me
THE LATE SHOW
Coherence
Firestorm
Intruders
The Sacrament
SHORTS
SHORTS 1
SHORTS 3:
ANIMATION
SHORTS 4:
NEW VISIONS
SHORTS 5:
EXPERIMENTAL:
LOOKING GLASS
SHORTS 6:
FAMILY FILMS
SHORTS 7:
YOUTH WORKS
Angels *
Barn Dance *
The Birds’ Blessing *
Re:Awakenings *
Santa Cruz del Islote *
So You’ve Grown Attached *
Cosmic Flower Unfolding *
Drunker Than a Skunk *
Gloria Victoria *
Little Vulvah and Her
Clitoral Awareness *
The Master’s Voice:
Caveirao *
The Missing Scarf *
Oh Willy…
The Rancher *
Stop the Show (aka WAR) *
Subconscious Password *
A Very Large Increase
in the Size, Amount,
or Importance of
Something Over a Very
Short Period of Time *
All Vows *
The Claustrum *
Close the Lid, Gently
Entropic Epogee *
Fat Chance *
Numbers & Friends *
Spacetime *
Walking Grainy *
Bright
Dad’s Stick
De Luce 2: Architectura
Entr’Acte
Farther than
the Eye Can See
Little Girl
Lost and Found
Metamorfoza
Queen Takes Pawn
66, Episode 1: ICHOR
A Study in Natural Magic
Boyhood
The Dam Keeper *
I Want My Hat Back *
My Mom Is an Airplane *
The Numberlys *
Silent
Soup of the Day
Sprout *
Affect vs. Effect
Bay Area Girls Rock Camp *
Black Rock Creek
Cookie Wars *
Epitaph*
Inside the Ring
Lunch with Yoshi *
Paradigm
Point Reyes, CA
Shadows of Senghenydd
Sin Madre *
10,000 Hours
When Life Hands
You Lemons
SHORTS 2
Dance of the Death
Deserted *
In-between Worlds
Mystery *
No One but Lydia *
Zima *
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Shorts Program Sponsor
* In competition for GGA Award
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[ FILMS ]
Abuse of Weakness
Catherine Breillat
After a stroke that leaves the left side of her
body immobile, a film director named Maud
strikes up a fraught relationship with a swindler
who takes advantage of her fragile state. SFIFF
favorite Catherine Breillat has teamed up for the
very first time with the radiant Isabelle Huppert
to tell this extremely personal story of power
games and manipulation. (France/Belgium/
Germany 2013, 104 min)
Agnès Varda
Armed with her inimitable insight and ability to
find beauty where one least expects it, director
Agnès Varda travels to various far-flung locales,
interviewing artists, filmmakers and friends, in this
puckish and profound five-part miniseries originally
made for French television. (France 2011, 225 min)
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Neto Villalobos’s debut feature All About the
Feathers details the unconventional relationship
between an impoverished security guard and the
newly acquired fighting cock that he struggles to
care for. Anchored by the stellar performances
of a mostly non-professional cast, this quixotic
Costa Rican comedy is both slyly absurdist and
quietly observational. (Costa Rica 2013, 85 min)
NEW PEOPLE
BAM/PFA
One 45-min episode per day; single
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mon-fri Apr 28-may 2 12:30new people
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All That Jazz
The Amazing Catfish
Bob Fosse
Roy Scheider stands in for writer/director Bob
Fosse in Fosse's dazzling, self-lacerating and
clearly autobiographical musical, a Best Picture
nominee about a celebrated choreographer/
director who fantasizes about his mortality as he
juggles his many women, the edit of a movie and
rehearsals for a new stage production. Restored
by Twentieth Century Fox in collaboration with The
Film Foundation. (USA 1979, 123 min)
Claudia Sainte-Luce
Set in Guadalajara, The Amazing Catfish
follows the quiet transformation of a solitary
young woman informally adopted and absorbed
into a rambunctious matriarchy in a state
of crisis. Filmed by Claire Denis’ long-time
cinematographer, Agnès Godard, Claudia SainteLuce’s debut feature, based loosely on events
from her own life, blends a wry and moving
naturalism with moments of inspired comedy.
(Mexico 2013, 89 min)
Peter Ho-sun Chan
In Peter Chan's clever crowd-pleaser, three
college buddies become caught up in the thrall
of China's budding entrepreneurial spirit.
Abandoning dreams of stateside success in favor
of establishing an empire at home, they yearn
to beat America at its own rags-to-riches game,
only to discover that this also means weathering
personal and professional fallout from such a
meteoric rise. (Hong Kong/China 2013, 110 min)
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Art and Craft
Bad Hair
Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman, Mark Becker
What makes a masterpiece? This documentary
examines the curious life of one of the most
prolific art forgers in the United States, who—
under the guise of philanthropy—deceived
museums across the country with his
ingenuously crafted counterfeits for decades.
(USA 2013, 87 min)
Mariana Rondón
A 10-year-old boy's desire to straighten his
kinky hair causes outsized conflict with his
unemployed, harassed single mother in Mariana
Rondon's Caracas-set drama. Unexpected issues
related to Venezuela’s volatile economic situation
and the young boy’s incipient homosexuality form
the core of this finely acted, deceptively smallscaled story. (Venezuela/Peru 2013, 93 min)
Seric Aprymov
Eight-year-old Yerkin is an immensely
resourceful third grader who proudly takes care
of himself. He lives in Bulak, a small village
on the steppes of Kazakhstan, where his keen
observations are sometimes humorous and
always honest. Director Seric Aprymov skillfully
weaves a complex and slyly humorous story of
good and bad brothers into the simple rhythms of
a young boy’s life. (Kazakhstan 2013, 97 min)
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Belle
Blind Dates
The Blue Wave
Amma Asante
In riveting fashion, The British costume drama
is married to issues of social justice in this
adaptation of a true story. Dido Elizabeth Belle,
a mixed-race young woman, takes her place in
18th century society, in the shadow of her great
uncle, a British Earl, and her enslaved Caribbean
mother. (UK 2013, 105 min)
Levan Koguashvili
Single and 40, Sandro has zero prospects for
finding true love. Fate lends a hand when he
runs into a hairdresser, but there’s a catch: Her
husband is getting out of prison the next day.
For those new to the Georgian New Wave, this
low-key, comic gem is a wonderful introduction.
(Georgia 2013, 95 min)
Zeynep Dadak, Merve Kayan
In this low-key, loosely plotted coming-of-age tale,
a Turkish teenage girl wrestles with mood swings,
unfocused restlessness, familial responsibilities,
shifting friendships and romantic complications
during a year of quiet tumult. (Turkey/Germany/
Netherlands/Greece 2013, 97 min)
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FOUNDER’S directing award
Borgman
Boyhood
BURT’S BUZZ
Alex van Warmerdam
After being flushed out of his subterranean
forest hovel by a hatchet-wielding priest, the
scruffy Borgman knocks on the door of a wellheeled couple and requests the use of their
bath. He soon worms his way into their home,
hatching a bizarre plot to upend their lives
that involves complex psychological warfare
and an alarmingly large number of corpses.
(Netherlands 2013,113 min)
Richard Linklater
Filming over the course of 12 years, Linklater
and his cast depict a young man’s journey from a
6-year-old boy to 18-year-old college freshman.
The resulting film “has no precedent” according
to the Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy.
“Never has the long arc of the journey from
childhood to college been portrayed as cohesively
and convincingly as Richard Linklater has done.”
(USA 2014, 162 min)
Jody Shapiro
Millions of folks love Burt’s Bees products, but
what about the man behind them? With the full
cooperation of his lovable but cantankerous
subject, director Jody Shapiro gives us the whole
fascinating story, replete with legal wrangling,
corporate chicanery and some unexpected twists.
(Canada 2013, 88 min)
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Child of God
Chinese Puzzle
Lorena Parlee, Richard Ray Perez
In 1988, labor organizer Cesar Chavez began
a 36-day water-only fast to protest the use
of pesticides that led farm workers and their
children to develop cancer at record rates. With
unparalleled access, Chavez's former press
secretary Lorena Parlee and co-director Richard
Ray Perez construct a portrait of the leader and a
life devoted to the people. (USA 2013,100 min)
James Franco
A backwoods-dwelling pariah in 1960s Tennessee
stumbles upon a pair of dead lovers and becomes
romantically obsessed with the woman’s corpse,
spiriting her body away to his squalid abode.
James Franco’s latest directorial effort is a
seething, snarling beast and an adaptation of a
Cormac McCarthy short story that is, by turn,
bleakly funny and deeply harrowing. (USA
2013, 104 min)
Cédric Klapisch
Picking up many of his characters 10 years
after The Spanish Apartment (SFIFF 2003) and
relocating them to the Big Apple, director Cédric
Klapisch offers a delightfully multicultural look
at the challenges and complications of romantic
commitment and parenting when one still hasn’t
determined what being an adult really means.
(France/USA 2013, 117 min)
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Club Sandwich
Coast of Death
Fernando Eimbcke
A doting mother and her lethargic 15-year-old
son pass away the idle hours of the off season
at an empty Mexican resort hotel, luxuriating
in their laziness until an odd and taciturn girl
arrives and attracts the boy’s attention. Though
theirs may be the least verbal romance in cinema
history, director Fernando Eimbcke’s delightful
restraint brings forth an intimacy, acuity and
comic release that few films can match. (Mexico
2013, 82 min)
Lois Patiño
From the first entrancing images of trees being
cut down in a fog-filled forest to the later blues
of sky and ocean fusing to erase the horizon, the
always static frames of this documentary offer
a meditative and prismatic view of Spain's much
storied and dangerous "Coast of Death.” (Spain
2013, 81 min)
James Byrkit
Four couples gather for a dinner party on a night
that coincides with a comet passing overhead.
Repercussions straight out of The Twilight Zone
ensue as relationships begin to shift amid the
chaos. Coherence soon takes a turn for the
delightfully weird and brain-busting—resulting in
one of the best low-budget sci-fi films in years.
(USA 2013, 89 min)
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Dear White People
Difret
The Dog
Justin Simien
Justin Simien reinvigorates the campus comedy
with his sharply written satire about race and
identity. Following a group of students at a
fictional Ivy League university, his film tackles
taboo topics with finesse and verve, and earned
a Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at
the Sundance Film Festival. (USA 2014,100 min)
Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
In a contemporary Ethiopian village, a
14-year-old girl is abducted from school. Her
attempt to free herself from a future of forced
marriage sets off a legal firestorm in this
powerful drama inspired by a true story that pits
the law against an entrenched set of community
beliefs. (Ethiopia 2014, 96 min)
Allison Berg, Frank Keraudren
John Wojtowicz, whose ill-fated 1972 robbery of a
Brooklyn bank to pay for his transgender bride's
sex-change operation inspired Sidney Lumet's
1975 classic Dog Day Afternoon, recalls both the
heist and his years as a gay rights activist in an
engaging documentary that captures the essence
of the man and his times. (USA 2013, 100 min)
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THE DOUBLE
THE DUNE
EASTERN BOYS
Richard Ayoade
Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg) is a white-collar
drone stuck in a Kafkaesque world of perpetual
humiliation. Enter James Simon (also Eisenberg):
a Type-A doppelgänger who offers to woo Simon’s
dream girl (Mia Wasikowska) for a price. As
writer/director Richard Ayoade’s sophomore
movie proves, however, appearances are never
what they seem. (UK 2013, 93 min)
Yossi Aviram
Delving into issues of identity and aging, this
nuanced and touching relationship drama
portrays the personal crises faced by an aging
gay cop in France and a younger Israeli man
who is found on the beach, mute and without any
identification. (France/Israel 2013, 87 min)
Robin Campillo
In this erotically charged nail-biter, director
Robin Campillo takes the audience on an
unexpected ride when Daniel, a dapper,
50-something Parisian businessman, coyly
cruises the Gare du Nord and awkwardly
propositions an eastern European immigrant
hustler. With this single act, their lives begin
to unravel and intertwine in surprising ways.
(France 2013, 128 min)
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FIRESTORM
FRANK
Stephanie Soechtig
Journalist Katie Couric produced and narrated
this documentary focusing on America’s obesity
epidemic, making complex science and Byzantine
politics accessible and engaging as it answers
big questions regarding the food industry and
shows how its influence has come to determine
America’s nutritional choices. Her palpable anger
at the expanded waistlines and compromised
health of today’s America is a powerful indictment
of our shadowy food industry. (USA 2014, 90 min)
Alan Yuen
Police Inspector Liu (Andy Lau) assembles a
crack team to bring down a racketeer from the
Chinese mainland in this Hong Kong blockbuster.
In the process, he is forced to question old
loyalties and his own principles. Featuring
top-notch action sequences—including a fiery
shoot-out on the streets of Hong Kong’s Central
district—Firestorm is an action movie that
doesn’t hold back its ammunition. (Hong Kong/
China 2013, 119 min)
Lenny Abrahamson
A pop star wannabe sees a path to the fame he’s
only daydreamed about when he is asked to join
an art rock band. But his outsized ambition is at
odds with his own meager talent, the defiantly
avant garde group’s lack of commercial prospects
and the diffidence of the band’s musical savant
leader, Frank, who conceals himself with a giant
fake head. (Ireland/UK 2014, 96 min)
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Freedom Summer
DOC
The Great Museum
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Happiness
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Stanley Nelson
Freedom Summer ushers the audience into
the center of the Civil Rights conflict during
the heated summer of 1964 in Mississippi, the
nation's most segregated state at that time, and
documents the efforts of more than 700 student
volunteers who banded together with organizers
and local African Americans to secure the right to
vote for all US citizens. (USA 2013, 113 min)
Johannes Holzhausen
On the eve of an ambitious remodeling and
reinstallation at Vienna’s famed Kunsthistorisches
Museum, this perceptive and slyly humorous
documentary peers into the inner workings as
the big day approaches. The Great Museum
unsurprisingly makes for sumptuous eye candy,
but perhaps its greatest pleasure is its humane
observation of the people who are responsible for
making this institution great. (Austria 2014, 95 min)
Thomas Balmès
High in the snow-capped mountains of Bhutan,
nine-year-old Peyangki would rather play
outdoors than study in the monastery. A trip to the
capital, and exposure to television and the modern
world, opens his eyes to an enticing, complicated
future in this eloquently photographed
documentary scored by indie rockers British Sea
Power. (France/Finland 2013, 80 min)
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Harmony Lessons
Heaven Adores You
Emir Baigazin
Part Lord of the Flies riff and part ticking-timebomb character study, the debut feature from
Kazakh filmmaker Emir Baigazin watches as a
high-school gangster and a disturbed misfit kid
become entwined in a plot for revenge. Welcome
to a world of campus pecking orders, underage
predators and prey that fights back. (Kazakhstan/
Germany/France 2013, 114 min)
Nickolas Rossi
Brilliant, beloved indie rock singer-songwriter
Elliott Smith—whose Academy Award–nominated
“Miss Misery” from the Good Will Hunting
soundtrack earned him unexpected fame, and
who died tragically in 2003 at age 34—is fondly
remembered by friends, family and fellow
musicians in this elegiac documentary, at once a
testament to Smith’s boundless talent and music’s
ability to transcend loss. (USA 2014, 96 min)
Kat Candler
A struggling father copes with the loss of his wife
while blind to the emotional toll her death and
his frequent absences have taken on his sons—a
motocross-riding teenager and his brother,
a sensitive pre-adolescent boy. Outstanding
performances from Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul
and young Josh Wiggins make the story all the
more heartbreaking. (USA 2014, 93 min)
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History of Fear
Impossible Light
Benjamín Naishtat
Are strange occurrences in an affluent Buenos
Aires suburb evidence that the skittish residents
are actually being targeted? Paranoia runs rampant
in this accomplished first feature, instilling a
disorienting sense of dread in the viewer. The
filmmaker foregoes ready explanations in favor of
foreboding suggestions in a film that is sprawling
both in scope and implications but precise and
exacting in its execution. (Argentina/France/
Germany/Uruguay/Qatar 2014, 79 min)
Sophie Fillières
The extraordinary Emmanuelle Devos and
Mathieu Amalric give fascinating, just-off-center
performances as a longtime couple who’ve fallen
awkwardly out of rhythm and possibly out of love. A
hike in the forest leads to a fork in the road in this
quietly resonant romance-on-the-rocks strewn with
droll one-liners. (France 2013,102 min)
Jeremy Ambers
In this behind-the-scenes look at the creation of
the legendary Bay Lights project, director Jeremy
Ambers offers a close-up view—from inception
to execution—of the project that transformed the
Bay Bridge into the internationally renowned art
installation that currently illuminates the San
Francisco skyline. (USA 2014, 71 min)
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Special free outdoor screening
check festival.sffs.org for date and time
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Intruders
The Lady Eve
Noh Young-seok
Against a backdrop of politics and paranoia comes
this humorous and suspenseful story of a blocked
Korean screenwriter holing up in a remote cabin
to finish his latest script. As the young scribe
attempts to work, he is beset by a variety of
distressing interruptions, including the discovery
of a dead body. (South Korea 2013, 99 min)
David Zellner
Surly Tokyo loner Kumiko (Rinko Kikuchi) has a
mission: Recovering loot buried somewhere in
the snowbound countryside outside Fargo, North
Dakota. No matter that this treasure may exist
only in the Coen brothers' classic movie—it’s
real to her. Austin's deliciously quirky Zellner
brothers return to SFIFF with a trans-Pacific
road trip of droll minimalist hilarity and ravishing
widescreen enchantment. (USA 2014, 105 min)
Preston Sturges
A handsome but stupid heir and a delectable
con artist enjoy a shipboard romance until he
drops her when he learns she’s a grifter, setting
the stage for comic confrontation when she
reappears in his hometown in another guise.
The phenomenal Preston Sturges elicits brilliant
performances from a cast headed by Henry
Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck in this hilarious
screwball classic. (USA 1941, 94 min)
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The Last Season
Last Weekend
Little Accidents
Sara Dosa
Every September, over 200 seasonal workers,
most of them Cambodian, Lao, Hmong, Mien and
Thai, descend upon the tiny town of Chemult,
Oregon, to search the woods for the rare
Matsutake, a fungus highly prized in Japan.
This documentary examines the bond between
two of these hunters, an elderly Vietnam vet
and a survivor of the Khmer Rouge, during one
unusually hard season. (USA 2014, 78 min)
Tom Dolby, Tom Williams
Patricia Clarkson gives a spirited performance
as an aging matriarch who wants her family and
friends to gather one last time for a fond farewell
to the magnificent Lake Tahoe manor she intends
to sell. But comically, her plans quickly crumble
into chaos, sparking a moving, profound and
private remembrance. (USA 2013, 94 min)
Sara Colangelo
In a West Virginia coal-mining town, the
unthinkable has happened: Ten men have lost
their lives in a mining accident, leaving the
community in shambles as it tries to make sense
of the disaster. Featuring standout performances
from Elizabeth Banks and rising stars Boyd
Holbrook and Jacob Lofland, Little Accidents
weaves an atmospheric, everything-is-connected
narrative about bonds forged from indescribable
loss. (USA 2014,105 min)
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Manakamana
Manos Sucias
Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez
The patient cameras of Harvard's Sensory
Ethnography Lab (Sweetgrass, Leviathan) return
in Manakamana, Stephanie Spray and Pacho
Velez's intimate record of an isolated Nepalese
pilgrimage site and the cable car journey that
brings adherents, travelers and many others to
the shrine's lofty mountain location. (USA/Nepal
2013,120 min)
Lino Brocka
Among cinema’s greatest humanists, Filipino
director Lino Brocka made this masterpiece tale
of displaced youth and corruption in the teeth of
Ferdinand Marcos’s brutal dictatorship. Restored in
2013 by the World Cinema Foundation and the Film
Development Council of the Philippines at Cineteca
di Bologna/L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in
association with LVN, Cinema Artists Philippines and
Mike de Leon. (Philippines 1975, 124 min)
Josef Wladyka
A reluctant smuggler and his eager neophyte
brother drag a massive load of narcotics up
the coast of Colombia, posing as fishermen.
Paramilitary, guerrillas and hardscrabble
desperation suffuse every inch of the jungle
and waters that surround them, as they seek
to escape the slums of Buenaventura. (USA/
Colombia 2014, 82 min)
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A P R I L
T H U R S D A Y
F R I D A Y
Kabuki
OPENING NIGHT
CASTRO
7:00
A P R I L
S A T U R D A Y
MIN
Kabuki
1:00
110
10:15 Shorts 6: Family Films
MIN
3:00
We Come as Friends
105
97
3:30
Harmony Lessons
114
12:45 Queen Margot: The
Director’s Cut
6:00
What Now? Remind Me
164
1:00
The Double
6:15
Fed Up
92
1:30
Cesar’s Last Fast
6:30
Hellion
93
2:00
6:45
The Last Season
78
9:00
Blind Dates
9:15
Tip Top
9:30
Child of God
9:45
Coherence
When Evening Falls on
Bucharest or Metabolism
6:00
Manakamana
9:00
The Reconstruction
8:40
MIN
77
159
MIN
11:00 Shorts 7: Youth Works
71
12:15 Happiness
80
12:30 All That Jazz
123
97
1:30
Our Sunhi
88
Tracks
110
2:45
Fed Up
3:30
110
3:15
The Militant
121
95
4:00
90
3:30
4:15
Club Sandwich
82
P.O.V. Award: Isaac Julien:
Ten Thousand Waves
135
105
104
6:00
Chinese Puzzle
117
4:00
127
89
6:30
89
5:30
Shorts 4: New Visions
6:15
Tangerines
100
6:30
Belle
7:00
A Conversation with
K.K. Barrett
6:45
89
Dear White People
93
92
69
84
105
75
7:00
Shorts 1
86
9:00
Tangerines
84
120
9:15
Frank
96
8:15
Shorts 2
83
93
9:30
Our Sunhi
88
8:45
85
9:45
Shorts 3: Animation
74
9:00
The Dog
100
95
9:15
Tip Top
105
11:45 The Sacrament
85
127
New People Cinema
12:15 Master Class: Dolby &
Skywalker
2:00
Agnès Varda: From Here
to There
6:30
The Great Museum
9:00
The Militant
New People Cinema
75
225
95
121
BAM/PFA
24
Kabuki
100
BAM/PFA
6:30
S U N D A Y
12:45 The Blue Wave
New People Cinema
3:45
A P R I L
1:45
The Seventh Walk
3:30
We Come as Friends
6:15
78
8:00
Trap Street
94
1:00
Manakamana
4:00
School of Babel
7:00
89
250
BAM/PFA
12:30 The Last Season
78
2:30
What Now? Remind Me
164
5:45
Shorts 5: Experimental:
Looking Glass
77
8:15
Blind Dates
95
72
105
120
A P R I L
A P R I L
M O N D A Y
Kabuki
1:00
Tracks
2:00
A P R I L
T U E S D AY
MIN
Kabuki
W E D N E S D A Y
MIN
Kabuki
97
1:30 Standing Aside, Watching
90
3:45
Young & Beautiful
93
3:45 Freedom Summer
113
5:00
The Seventh Walk
72
85
6:00 Soul Food Stories
85
6:15
78
The Trip to Italy
115
6:15 If You Don’t, I Will
102
6:30
The Skeleton Twins
90
6:45
Cesar’s Last Fast
100
7:00 History of Fear
79
6:45
Tonnerre
7:15
The Seventh Walk
72
7:30 Peter J. Owens Award
7:00
The Great Museum
9:00
127
8:45 Tamako in Moratorium
8:45
Kumiko, the Treasure
Hunter
105
9:00
Abuse of Weakness
104
9:15
Bad Hair
93
9:30
Pioneer
106
93
3:30
Belle
4:00
Frank
96
4:00
Hellion
93
6:00
Stray Dogs
138
6:15
6:15
The Dog
100
6:30
6:30
The Overnighters
100
6:45
American Dreams
in China
110
80
105
9:00
The Sacrament
95
9:15
The Double
93
9:00 Borgman
9:15
Stand Up Planet
75
9:30
Shorts 2
83
9:30
Young & Beautiful
93
9:45
Coherence
89
9:30 Shorts 5: Experimental:
Looking Glass
9:45
95
Child of God
104
6:30
School of Babel
89
9:15
Club Sandwich
82
BAM/PFA
97
8:30
89
Filmhouse
5:00
12:30 Agnès Varda: From Here
to There: Part Two
78
113
77
New People Cinema
New People Cinema
45
to There: Part Three
45
3:15
Stray Dogs
138
4:00
The Reconstruction
93
6:30
Blind Dates
95
6:30
Supermensch: The
Legend of Shep Gordon
84
8:45
Dear White People
100
9:00
CASTRO
8:00
6:30
MIN
The Blue Wave
The Reconstruction
3:45
Kabuki
1:00
45
MIN
80
1:30
to There: Part One
T H U R S D A Y
1:00 Happiness
110
New People Cinema
M A Y
Thao and the Get Down
Stay Down
75
BAM/PFA
6:30
100
8:50
The Other One: The Long,
Strange Trip of Bob Weir
90
Salon: How Do We Know If
We’re Making a Difference?
American Dreams
in China
106
95
New People Cinema
to There: Part Four
6:15
9:00
Queen Margot: The
Director’s Cut
110
45
95
159
BAM/PFA
BAM/PFA
6:30
Stray Dogs
138
9:10
Eastern Boys
128
6:30
Difret
8:50
The Militant
96
121
Filmhouse
6:30
Salon: Future Audience
Denotes Total Running Time
Liquor laws will fully restrict attendance after 6pm on weekdays and 3pm on weekends in House 3 and
House 4 of the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas to patrons over 21 years of age. Additionally, Patrons under 21
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MAY
MAY
S A T U R D A Y
F R I D A Y
Kabuki
1:00 Supermensch: The Legend
of Shep Gordon
MIN
84
Kabuki
12:15 Freedom Summer
S U N D A Y
MIN
3:30
The Last Season
3:45
Salon: The $11 Billion Year
114
4:00
Little Accidents
82
6:00
Of Horses and Men
81
6:15
Harmony Lessons
114
12:45 Harmony Lessons
97
3:30 The Skeleton Twins
90
2:30
75
Kumiko, the Treasure
Hunter
105
3:45 Master Class: Funny or Die
4:30 Of Horses and Men
81
96
120
78
105
1:30
Club Sandwich
3:00
Mel Novikoff Award: David
Thomson: The Lady Eve
145
6:30
We Are the Best!
102
100
6:45
South Is Nothing
90
82
128
3:30
Pioneer
6:15 The Blue Wave
97
4:30
Burt’s Buzz
88
3:15
6:30 Last Weekend
95
5:30
Our Sunhi
88
3:45
Shorts 1
86
8:30
Manos Sucias
7:00 Coast of Death
81
6:00
The Amazing Catfish
89
4:00
The Dune
87
9:00
Heaven Adores You
96
9:00 Salvation Army
82
6:30
Tonnerre
106
6:00
Art and Craft
89
9:00
Shorts 3: Animation
74
92
9:15
Porchlight
75
6:00 Eastern Boys
106
102
7:30
Centerpiece: Palo Alto
98
6:30
Ping Pong Summer
9:30 The Other One: The Long,
90
8:30
South Is Nothing
90
6:30
White Shadow
115
8:45
Of Horses and Men
81
6:45
Manos Sucias
82
9:45 Intruders
99
9:15
Coast of Death
81
9:00
Return to Homs
87
1:00
Last Weekend
110
9:15
110
6:30
9:30
Obvious Child
85
9:00
Borgman
9:45
Trap Street
94
9:15 If You Don’t, I Will
10:30 Firestorm
New People Cinema
to There: Part Five
2:00
45
Mary Is Happy, Mary Is
Happy
127
6:00
124
9:00
History of Fear
79
CASTRO
7:00
Founder’s Directing Award:
Richard Linklater: Boyhood
232
6:30
Happiness
8:30
All that Jazz
New People Cinema
1:00
The Overnighters
100
3:30
Soul Food Stories
85
New People Cinema
6:00
We Come as Friends
105
12:30 A Story of Children and Film
101
9:00
3:00
Mary Is Happy, Mary
Is Happy
127
6:15
Bad Hair
8:45
Eastern Boys
90
BAM/PFA
1:30
6:30
8:30
The Dog
250
80
100
93
128
BAM/PFA
1:30
Agnès Varda: From Here
to There
225
80
6:00
124
123
8:30
Salvation Army
BAM/PFA
82
Disney Family Museum
10:00 Master Class: Painting
AM
with Pixar
26
MIN
Manakamana
105
Kabuki
2:00
12:30 Kumiko, the Treasure
Hunter
1:00
Difret
MIN
10:00 Members’ Screening
12:30 Kanbar Award
3:15
Kabuki
M O N D A Y
113
115
1:30 The Trip to Italy
MAY
75
New People Cinema
95
80
113
BAM/PFA
6:30
Coast of Death
81
8:40
Art and Craft
89
MAY
MAY
T U E S D A Y
Kabuki
MAY
W E D N E S D A Y
MIN
Kabuki
T H U R S D A Y
MIN
Kabuki
MIN
1:00 Soul Food Stories
85
1:00
South Is Nothing
90
5:00
69
1:15 Burt’s Buzz
88
1:30
We Are the Best!
102
5:30
Intruders
99
4:00 Obvious Child
85
3:30
Difret
96
6:00
Manos Sucias
6:00 Little Accidents
105
3:45
Heaven Adores You
96
7:30
Night Moves
112
6:15 White Shadow
115
6:15
Return to Homs
87
8:00
White Shadow
115
6:30 Salvation Army
82
6:30
Freedom Summer
113
8:15
Art and Craft
89
6:45 Trap Street
94
6:45
A Story of Children and
Film
101
8:45
What Now? Remind Me
164
2:00
Yves Saint Laurent
105
112
6:00
Heaven Adores You
96
9:00 Mary Is Happy, Mary
Is Happy
127
9:00 The Amazing Catfish
89
9:00
Night Moves
9:30 The Dune
87
9:15
97
9:30
Intruders
99
New People Cinema
6:30
100
9:15
Yves Saint Laurent
105
CASTRO
8:00
Stephin Merritt with
The Unknown
75
82
New People Cinema
CLOSING NIGHT
CASTRO
New People Cinema
4:00
Impossible Light
71
8:45
Ping Pong Summer
92
BAM/PFA
6:30
Bad Hair
93
8:45
History of Fear
79
7:00
Alex of Venice
87
BAM/PFA
6:30
The Dune
87
8:45
The Amazing Catfish
89
BAM/PFA
6:30
Return to Homs
87
8:30
Tangerines
84
Denotes Total Running Time
Liquor laws will fully restrict attendance after 6pm on weekdays and 3pm on
weekends in House 3 and House 4 of the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas to patrons
over 21 years of age. Additionally, Patrons under 21 must sit in the orchestra
section for all shows in House 1. Please be ready to present valid photo ID.
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Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy.
The Militant
Mohammad Rasoulof
Writer-director Mohammad Rasoulof has
rooted his remarkable career in a wide-ranging
critique of censorship and authoritarian rule in
his native Iran. Here, the filmmaker extends his
uncompromising and diverse body of work with
a taut, finely woven drama based on real-life
events impacting a small circle of aging writers
menaced by the Secret Service. (Iran 2013,127
min)
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit
In this playful, inventive experiment in narrative
plotting, the story of Thai teenager Mary’s final
year of high school is told via 410 tweets, taken
verbatim from the Twitter feed of a real-life Thai
teenager. The tweets provide the outlines for
a tale that tracks Mary’s romantic travails, her
relationship with best friend Suri and events both
comic and tragic. (Thailand 2013,127 min)
Manolo Nieto
A student leader fighting against the bosses of
striking packinghouse workers in 2002 Uruguay
experiences a coming-of-age crisis when he
inherits his father’s ranch. The radical becomes
the boss and finds himself responsible for paying
months of back wages to the gauchos stiffed by his
dad. (Uruguay/Argentina 2013,121 min)
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Night Moves
Kelly Reichardt
Filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (Meek’s Cutoff SFIFF
2011) applies her signature style blending
character-driven drama, lush landscapes and
an embrace of ambiguity to this atypical political
thriller starring Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning
and Peter Sarsgaard as environmental activists
who plot to blow up an Oregon hydroelectric dam.
(USA 2013, 112 min)
Jeffrey Radice
(In)famous for pitching a no-hitter on LSD in
1970, Pittsburgh Pirate Dock Ellis was the
Muhammad Ali of the ballpark: proudly black,
loudly opinionated and ready to rumble. When
his addictions left him broke and unemployable,
he battled back to begin a new chapter in his life,
counseling others in similar straits. With short:
The High Five (10 min) (USA 2014,100 min)
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1:00
3:30
9:15
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KABUKI
KABUKI
KABUKI
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APR 27
MAY 1
9:00
3:15
8:50
NEW PEOPLE
KABUKI
BAM/PFA
Lav Diaz
Art-house favorite Lav Diaz's latest epic explores
everything from the state of present-day rural
Philippines by way of Dostoevsky (Diaz’s favorite
writer) to the 1890s Philippine Revolution against
the Spanish. Actor Sid Lucero gives a remarkable,
haunting performance as an existential law
school dropout. (Philippines 2013, 250 min)
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MAY 3
7:00
1:30
NEW PEOPLE
BAM/PFA
sffs supported
Obvious Child
Of Horses and Men
Gillian Robespierre
Recently dumped Donna (the charismatic,
hilarious Jenny Slate) is a raunchy stand-up
comedian flailing through life, bolstered by her
equally comical friends and family. Normally witty
and open, she struggles with how to tell clean-cut
Max that she’s pregnant from their one-night
stand. But a girl who’s used to verbalizing her
internal monologue can’t keep the situation to
herself forever. (USA 2013, 85 min)
Benedikt Erlingsson
Two- and four-legged creatures display
remarkable similarities in Benedikt Erlingsson's
gorgeously photographed series of connected
tales, set in rural Icelandic horse country. Though
the film contains a running string of tragedies,
its tone never downshifts into darkness; aided by
an inspired, jaunty score, it trots into each quirky
vignette with enchanting enthusiasm, vividly
illuminating an isolated community and its many
beasts within. (Iceland/Germany 2013, 81 min)
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Mike Fleiss
Bob Weir, “the other one,” steps into the spotlight
and out of Grateful Dead band mate Jerry
Garcia’s shadow in this expansive documentary in
which Weir’s story unfolds through performance
footage of him, with and without the Dead; home
movies; interviews with family, friends, band
mates and admiring fellow musicians; but most
of all through the personable guitarist’s own
reminiscences. (USA 2014, 90 min)
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The Overnighters
Hong Sang-soo
South Korean director Hong Sang-soo’s 15th film
finds him once again exploring the world of selfinterested filmmakers with strained love lives. In
a series of amusingly droll and acerbic drinking
sessions, attractive film student Sunhi nervously
mediates the uneven overtures of her professor,
a classmate and her ex-boyfriend. (South Korea
2013, 88 min)
Jesse Moss
Unemployed folks across America want new
oil jobs in North Dakota, but housing is at a
premium. Enter Pastor Jay Reinke. Despite
protests from his own congregation, he opens up
his church to “overnighters"—people in search of
a second shot at the American Dream. The film
expertly and compassionately depicts the conflict
between locals, these new "residents" and Pastor
Reinke. (USA 2014,100 min)
Gia Coppola
Filmmaker Gia Coppola expertly adapts James
Franco’s book Palo Alto, about teenagers shifting
from childhood innocence to adult responsibility.
This richly atmospheric ensemble drama features
a terrific cast, including Emma Roberts, Jack
Kilmer and Franco himself. The film gives the
passion and anxiety of teenage life an undeniably
cinematic glow. (USA 2014, 98 min)
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Queen Margot: the Director’s Cut
Michael Tully
It’s 1985 and in the seaside resort town of Ocean
City, Maryland, table tennis looms large for one
young teen in this coming-of-age comedy that
pays affectionate homage to all things ‘80s as a
shy, hip-hop obsessed 13-year-old boy makes
new friends, crushes on a girl, encounters bullies
and hones his game during a life-changing
summer vacation. (USA 2014, 92 min)
Erik Skjoldbjaerg
With a nod to politically tinged whistleblower
dramas such as Silkwood and The Parallax
View, Erik Skjoldbjaerg’s new thriller starring
Scandinavian superstar Aksel Hennie depicts the
competitive maelstrom surrounding the race to
construct an underwater oil pipeline off the coast
of Norway. (Norway/Germany/Sweden/France/
Finland 2013,106 min)
Patrice Chéreau
The 1994 Cannes Jury Prize Winner—now
technically enriched and restored to full length—
immerses viewers in the bosom-heaving passion
and political intrigue of 16th-century France, with
Isabel Adjani as the titular monarch caught up in
bloody battles and boudoir power plays among
warring Catholics and Protestants on the eve of
the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. (France/
Italy/Germany 1994, 159 min)
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The Reconstruction
Return to Homs
Juan Taratuto
Argentinian director Juan Taratuto and actor
Diego Peretti make a sharp detour from their
previous comedies in this finely observed
character study set against the desolate beauty
of Patagonia. Peretti is remarkable as an
embittered, rough-hewn oilman who finds himself
forced to engage with an old friend’s family. In the
process, he confronts the emotional wilderness
inside him. (Argentina 2013, 93 min)
Talal Derki
Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for
Documentary at Sundance, this urgent dispatch
from the besieged Syrian city of Homs is both
an elegy and a call to action. Filmed between
2011 and 2013, it presents a visceral eyewitness
account of the conflict as a peaceful uprising
descends into civil war and idealistic young men
are transformed into revolutionary martyrs.
(Syria/Germany 2013, 87 min)
Ti West
A chilling examination of religious fanaticism
starring Joe Swanberg, Amy Seimetz and AJ
Bowen, Ti West’s new film tells the story of a
camera crew reporting on a utopian commune
operating in a remote location outside the United
States. (USA 2013, 95 min)
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School of Babel
Abdellah Taïa
Adapting his autobiographical novel, director
Abdellah Taïa tells the story of a gay Moroccan
boy finding self-realization and personal strength
within a society that shuns him. Shot by the brilliant
cinematographer Agnès Godard, the film takes the
form of a diptych, telling the protagonist’s story in
two different time periods and locales. (Morocco
2013, 82 min)
Julie Bertuccelli
This revelatory documentary details a year in
the life of immigrant youth from around the
globe—boys and girls age 11 to 15—who are
living in Paris and enrolled in a “reception class”
where an extraordinary teacher helps them learn
to speak French and assimilate into their new
society. (France 2013, 89 min)
Amit Dutta
In The Seventh Walk, celebrated Indian
filmmaker Amit Dutta fuses painterly technique
and cinematic vision to form an engrossing
meditation on the artistic legacy of Northern
India's lush Kangra Valley. Dutta masterfully
illuminates the region's rich visual arts tradition
with fuguelike passages of text, image and
sound. (India 2013, 70 min)
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Shorts 1
Shorts 2
Shorts 3: Animation
Imaginary friends and the Blue Angels are only
a couple of the entities to be encountered in this
collection of documentary and narrative shorts.
Under Bill Morrison’s masterly treatment, Oliver
Sacks’s encephalitic patients have their story told
in a brand-new way, while Santa Cruz del Islote
portrays a small but vibrant fishing community.
All films in the program are competing for Golden
Gate Awards. (TRT 86 min)
From the wintry landscapes of Siberia to a desert
posting in Israel for two female soldiers, these
narrative and documentary shorts showcase a
wide-ranging exploration of life and locale. Here
in the US, two delightful shorts depict the lives
of youngsters navigating their way in the world.
All 2013 films in the program are competing for
Golden Gate Awards. (TRT 86 min)
Compromising an array of animation techniques
and styles, from hand-drawn to CGI to puppetry
and including narrative, non-narrative and
experimental forms, these shorts represent the
most arresting and wonderful animated work
out there. All 2013 films in this program are
competing for a Golden Gate Award. (TRT 76 min)
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The experimental shorts in this program radically
trace the outer edges of filmmaking form and
style, asking for adventurous viewers. From
the hilarious fantasy-sports based Numbers &
Friends by relative newcomer Alexander Carson
to the ineffably beautiful All Vows by master Bill
Morrison, this program bears unexpected and
delicious fruits. All 2013 films in the program are
competing for Golden Gate Awards. (TRT 68 min)
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Shorts 5: Experimental:
Looking Glass
Shorts 6: Family Films
Eleven experimental films take us on a journey
through the looking glass—reflecting on the
past, illuminating the present and imagining the
future. Featuring new works by Su Friedrich,
John Smith, Janis Crystal Lipzin, Basma Alsharif,
Charlotte Pryce and Paul Clipson; animations
by Martha Colburn, Lewis Klahr and Lawrence
Jordan, and rediscovered films by Jim Jennings
and Bruce Baillie. (TRT 77 min)
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Travel from Kenya to Korea—and a few imaginary
destinations in between—in this collection of
short films for kids and families. A bear tries to
find his hat, a pig tries to make a new friend, and
the Oscar-winning animators of Moonbot Studios
bring us two new films about making magical
things: the alphabet and the movies. (TRT 74 min)
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The Skeleton Twins
Soul Food Stories
Today’s teen filmmakers live in a media-saturated
culture, with the tools to create and distribute
professional quality films at their fingertips. Their
technical prowess, the quality of their storytelling
and their fluency in visual language give voice to
stories that are fresh and innovative. Lend your
ear to a new generation, and join us in celebrating
today’s rising talents! (TRT 72 min)
Craig Johnson
A near tragedy reunites long-estranged twins
after a decade apart, a visit that reopens old
wounds and tweaks current insecurities, but also
rekindles their former closeness and delight in
one another. As siblings Milo and Maggie, SNL
alums Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig spread their
dramatic wings in a dysfunctional family tale that
leavens its downbeat moments with warmth and
hilarity. (USA 2013, 90 min)
Tonislav Hristov
Muslim, Christian, Roma and atheist Communists
live together peacefully in Satovcha, a Bulgarian
village. They have differing theologies and politics,
but are united by a love of food and the eternal
mystery of being men and women. Beautifully
shot, the film unfolds like a 10-course meal, with
observations of food preparation and religious
diversity laced into the recipes. With short: Little
Block of Cement with Disheveled Hair Containing
the Sea (16 min) (Bulgaria/Finland 2013, 69 min)
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South Is Nothing
Fabio Mollo
Miriam Karlkvist took a well-deserved Shooting
Star award at Berlin for her portrayal of an
androgynous teenage girl negotiating life in a
mafia-controlled town whose code of silence is
destroying her family. A first feature from Fabio
Mollo, filming in his native Reggio Calabria,
combines poetic realism with hard-edged
cynicism. (Italy/France 2013, 90 min)
Yorgos Servetas
Antigone returns to her seaside hometown
in hopes of starting anew but soon discovers
troubling undercurrents of despair and
exploitation pervading the town. Subtly referencing
both classical Greek tragedy and Westerns,
this unflinching look at austerity-era Greece is
propelled by a fiery female protagonist, unable to
remain a passive observer. (Greece 2013, 90 min)
Roberto Minervini
This unique hybrid of documentary and narrative
offers an evocative portrait of the quotidian lives
of a devout young Christian goat farmer and the
bull riding cowboy who lives nearby. As much a
portrait of the Eastern Texas town where they
live, the film combines ethnography and budding
romance to compelling effect. (USA/Belgium/
Italy 2013,100 min)
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A Story of Children and Film
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Mark Cousins
As a follow-up to his epic 15-hour documentary
series The Story of Film, writer/director/
curator/critic Mark Cousins has created a
captivating companion piece more on the scale
of its small-statured subject: children in film.
His lilting Scottish narration gently guides us
through a virtual graduate seminar on some
of the greatest films about children in world
cinema. (UK 2013, 101 min)
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Stray Dogs
Tsai Ming-liang
A poverty-stricken father and his two young
children try to survive in modern-day Taipei in
yet another remarkable piece of cinema from the
great Tsai Ming-liang. Tsai's oblique approach
to space and time renders Stray Dogs an often
mysterious work whose tactile and sodden
images investigate the emotional boundaries of
privation and deep loneliness. (Taiwan/France
2013,138 min)
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of Shep Gordon
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Mike Myers
Comedian Mike Myers pays homage to the talent
manager who first tasted success alongside his
client, rocker Alice Cooper. This affectionate
documentary blends Gordon’s reminiscences,
archival footage and testimonials from clients
and friends, including Cooper, Michael Douglas
and Sylvester Stallone. (USA 2013, 84 min)
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Tangerines
TEN THOUSAND WAVES
Nobuhiro Yamashita
Recent college graduate Tamako does little more
than sleep, eat and indifferently work in her
father’s store. “Japan is hopeless,” she insists,
but she seems pretty hopeless herself. When her
dad makes a tentative stab at dating, it turns the
numb routine of her life upside down, leaving her
with two choices: sabotage Dad’s romance or find
her own place in the world. (Japan 2013, 78 min)
Zaza Urushadze
An old man caught in the brutal 1992 conflict
over the Abkhazia region of Georgia finds himself
nursing two wounded soldiers from opposing
sides in his small house. Zaza Urushadze’s
intense and compelling antiwar drama provides
discerning insights into the nature of regional and
ethnic conflicts. (Estonia/Georgia 2013, 84 min)
Isaac Julien
Originally inspired by the death of Chinese cockle
pickers in Morecambe Bay, Julien’s immersive
film installation, commissioned by MoMA,
interweaves contemporary Chinese culture with
its ancient myths. Shown here as a composite, the
piece features the poetry of Wang Ping, calligraphy
by Gong Fagen and appearances by Maggie
Cheung and Zhao Tao. (UK 2010, 50 min)
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Tonnerre
Luc Schaedler
Luc Schaedler's latest work presents distinct
and illuminating portraits of contemporary life
in China. Attentively observing life on a parched
farm, a grim industrial zone, a rural village and a
booming megacity, the documentary expressively
reveals the upheaval and uncertainty of a rapidly
changing nation through the deeply engrossing
stories of its people. (Switzerland 2013, 80 min)
Serge Bozon
Isabelle Huppert stars in this daring blend of a
police procedural, screwball comedy and social
satire, following two internal affairs cops who
investigate the murder of an informant in a small
town in northern France. Serge Bozon’s (La
France SFIFF 2008) energetic feature contains
elements that recall Rivette, mid-career Godard
and Resnais, while defying comparisons to films
by those directors or any other. (France/Belgium/
Luxembourg 2013,105 min)
Guillaume Brac
To escape Paris for a few months, 33-year-old
musician Maxime returns to his hometown
of Tonnerre in the middle of winter, where he
reconnects with his quirky father and has a
fling with a charming young journalist. These
initially amicable relationships, however,
become complicated when unresolved feelings
and unspoken truths begin to surface. (France
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Tracks
Trap Street
The Trip to Italy
John Curran
Starting out from Alice Springs, a young
woman decides to walk to the Indian Ocean,
2,000 miles across Australia, with four camels
and a dog for company in this adaptation
of adventurer Robyn Davidson’s memoir, a
journey of self-discovery made visceral by star
Mia Wasikowska’s physical performance and
vivid images of beautiful, but harsh desert
landscapes. (UK/Australia 2013, 110 min)
Vivian Qu
What's it like to be a 21st-century young
adult—with access to gadgets, the Internet and
other high-tech conveniences—within China's
surveillance state? First-time writer-director
Vivian Qu's taut, slow-building noir cleverly uses
a simple boy-meets-girl tale to unearth a hidden
world of government control lurking just under
the surface. (China 2013, 94 min)
Michael Winterbottom
The Trip's (SFIFF 2011) Steve Coogan and Rob
Brydon continue their culinary adventures with
a restaurant tour of Italy. One-upping each
other with literary quotations and movie-star
impressions, they squabble through some of the
world's most gorgeous scenery, yet never lose
their humor and sense of wonder in this hilarious
and poignant journey. (UK/Italy 2014, 115 min)
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We Are the Best!
We Come As Friends
Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard
Investigating musician/writer/poet Nick Cave’s
history, psyche and creative path, 20,000 Days on
Earth is a must-see for fans or anyone interested
in an Artist’s journey. This highly stylized biopic
presents a choreographed “day-in-the-life,”
depicting Cave as an introspective and dark figure,
and featuring his band the Bad Seeds’ own brand of
controlled ferocity. (UK 2014, 95 min)
Lukas Moodysson
An exuberant depiction of girl power, Lukas
Moodysson’s charming new film is set in 1980s
Stockholm and focuses on three young teenagers
who form a punk rock band. Besides showing
a knowing eye for the era—fish sticks and
mohawks—it’s also a wonderful reminder of how
fiercely girls can rock! (Sweden 2013, 102 min)
Hubert Sauper
South Sudan may have declared its independence
but that hasn't stopped multinationals and
missionaries from laying claim to its natural
resources and influencing its people's religious
beliefs. Employing intrepid techniques and
striking visuals, documentarian Hubert Sauper
(Darwin's Nightmare) delivers another piercing
examination of the human cost of neocolonialism
that will provoke both thought and outrage.
(France/Austria 2013, 110 min)
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What Now? Remind Me
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Joaquim Pinto
Portuguese director Joaquim Pinto poetically,
dynamically and candidly chronicles an entire
year of his life as he undergoes experimental
treatment for his longtime HIV and VHC infections
in this truly epic yet personal documentary. The
film takes a meta-view of HIV and other viruses,
and delves into the challenge of facing one’s own
fragility and finding unknown strength to survive.
(Portugal 2013, 164)
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Corneliu Porumboiu
Continuing his very particular parsing of
language and politics—here, the politics are
cinematic— Corneliu Porumboiu tells the story
of a film director rehearsing the details of a
nude scene with his lead actress. Investigating
the repetitive nature of filmmaking with sly
humor, Metabolism philosophizes about
chopsticks and endoscopies along the way.
(Romania/France 2013, 89 min)
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Young & Beautiful
Yves Saint Laurent
François Ozon
The step from a teenage girl's "first time" to her
decision to join the world's oldest profession
proves very short in Francois Ozon's latest. This
"portrait in four seasons and four songs" focuses
on comely Parisienne Isabelle (Marine Vacth),
who puts her newly honed ability to attract the
opposite sex to precociously commercial use.
(France 2013, 93 min)
Jalil Lespert
A drama as stylish as one of Saint Laurent’s
dresses, this sleek biopic focuses on 20 years in
the designer’s life, as he reaches the heights of
couture success at Dior, revolutionizes fashion
when he strikes out on his own and falls in love
with long-term partner Pierre Bergé, but also
battles personal demons that color his business
and his relationship. (France 2013,105 min)
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White Shadow
Noaz Deshe
Inspired by news reports of the ongoing perils
faced by albinos in Tanzania, Noaz Deshe’s first
feature film, White Shadow, depicts a fractured
and uneasy world, where superstition and rule of
law collide. An albino youth, Alias, must learn to
navigate through a culture not just unsympathetic
to his condition, but actively violent towards it.
(Italy/Germany/Tanzania 2013, 115 min)
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Willam R. Hearst III
Maurice Kanbar
Fred M. Levin
Janet McKinley
Celeste Meier
Victoria Raiser
Howard Roffman
Marc Ruxin
Barbara Tomber
Todd Traina
Alex Witherill
Penelope Wong
PHOTO CREDITS
Photo of Kanbar Award presentation by Tommy Lau
Photo of Peter J. Owens Award presentation by Pamela Gentile
Photo of Film Society Awards Night by Pamela Gentile
The Film Society’s hub of news, experiences,
photos and videos from staff and community
contributors: blog.sffs.org.
Photo of Queen Margot: The Director’s Cut by Cohen Media Group
Photo of Freedom Summer Courtesy of Johnson Publishing
Company, LLC.
Photo of Porchlight by Tommy Lau
Photo of Isaac Julien by Graeme Robertson
Photo of Yves Saint Laurent by Tibo & Anouchka
Photo of David Thomson by Lucy Gray
Photo of Ten Thousand Waves Courtesy of Metro Pictures, New
York and Victoria Miro, London
Education page photos by Lizzy Brooks
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[ FILMMAKER360 ]
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ABOUT FILMMAKER360
Offering a full suite of programs and activities designed to foster creativity and further the careers of independent filmmakers, the Film Society’s Filmmaker360
department empowers filmmakers of all levels, taking projects from conception to completion and beyond through development and fiscal sponsorship services,
major grants, the FilmHouse residency program and a range of networking events throughout the year.
GRANTS AND PROGRAM
FILMHOUSE
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
The Film Society awards filmmaking grants to
incubate and support innovative and exceptional
films. The total amount of money to be awarded in
2014 will exceed $700,000. Grants include the
SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grant, the Hearst
Screenwriting Grant, Doc Film Fund and Djerassi/
SFFS Screenwriting Fellowship.
Films supported include award winning narrative
feature films, Beasts of the Southern Wild,
Fruitvale Station and Short Term 12, and
documentaries, Cutie And the Boxer and American
Promise amongst others.
The San Francisco Film Society’s FilmHouse has
4,800 spacious square feet of office space located in
the bustling Fillmore District. The FilmHouse
residency program offers free office space to
filmmakers in various stages of production where
they can share talents and resources with their
peers. Through resident-led workshops, a robust
guest speaker series and numerous other
community-building events, FilmHouse is designed
to strengthen resident filmmakers› skill sets as a
way of contributing directly to the progress of their
ongoing film projects. The Film Society is dedicated in its support of
emerging and established filmmakers. Through our
long running and successful project development
program, Film Society provides fiscal sponsorship
and one-on-one consultation services designed to
help filmmakers step-by-step through the process
of getting their film funded, made and seen.
Major support for Filmmaker360 provided by
[ EDUCATION ]
ABOUT SFFS EDUCATION
The Film Society’s deep commitment to education through film touches the lives of more than 10,000 Bay Area students and teachers at the K-12 and
college level every year. Our array of year-round in-school and out-of-school youth programs provide film literacy opportunities to Bay Area students
through screenings, filmmaker classroom visits, artist residencies, youth filmmaking camp, teacher trainings and curriculum resources. For college
students, we offer a series of creative, educational, social and professional opportunities for film students to help them transition from the academic arena
to the professional world. SFFS Education recognizes the inherent value of film as a dynamic teaching tool and is dedicated to providing access to media arts
education to underserved communities.
SCHOOLS AT THE FESTIVAL
FilmEd.
COLLEGE DAYS
The annual Schools at the Festival (SATF) program
introduces students ages 6 to 18 to international
film and the art of filmmaking while promoting
media literacy, deepening insights into other
cultures, enhancing foreign language aptitude,
developing critical thinking skills and inspiring a
lifelong appreciation of cinema.
The latest initiative in the Film Society’s ongoing
efforts to promote media literacy and bring
cinema into the classroom is a new online space
called FilmEd., where artists and educators can
access resources for media education. Designed
as a free Open Educational Resource accessible
to all, FilmEd. is both an online community and a
powerful toolkit that includes a robust media
viewing and media making curriculum guide, a
lesson exchange, a youth media gallery and
more. At FilmEd., teachers who are interested in
integrating film and media into their curriculum
and filmmakers who are looking to develop
educational content and audiences for their films
can now connect, collaborate and share ideas
and resources.
This three-day film series is offered exclusively to
Bay Area college and university students during the
second weekend of SFIFF57. The program consists
of five Festival films, curated specifically for a
college film student audience who are new to the
Festival, and includes post-screening Q&As with
visiting filmmakers and a guest lecturer. San
Francisco State University currently offers a
one-credit course dedicated to this program in
partnership with the Film Society.
Find out more at filmed.sffs.org and join the
FilmEd. community.
SFFS Colleges & Universities Program Sponsor
Throughout SFIFF57, elementary, middle and high
school classes from across the Bay Area will attend
weekday matinees of specially curated Festival film
programs at subsidized ticket prices, and dozens of
filmmaker guests from around the world will visit
local classrooms to meet and discuss their films with
students in smaller classroom settings. Most films
are supplemented by viewing guides created by SFFS
Education to help teachers integrate the films into
their curriculum. Students will also have the
opportunity to enter the Nellie Wong Magic of Movies
Education Fund Essay Contest to compete for cash
prizes. The complete list of feature films,
documentaries and shorts programs selected for this
year’s SATF program can be found at festival.sffs.org.
For more information, email [email protected].
College Days Support Provided By:
For more information and to get on our teacher
mailing list, email [email protected].
Schools at the Festival Support Provided By:
Nellie Wong Magic of Movies Education Fund
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FILM AFICIONADO
$175/$330
FILM DIRECTOR
$500/$950
Luminary STAR
$1,000/$1,900
Luminary ICON
$2,000/$3,800
PRODUCER
$5,000
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Filmmaker pro
$100/$190
AND ENJOY A WORLD OF FILM ALL YEAR
FILM ENTHUSIAST
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[ MEMBERSHIP ]
JOIN US
Advance, discount tickets to SFIFF and other SFFS events*
Free year-round members-only screenings + a bonus screening during SFIFF
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Invitation to SFIFF Members Night
Ticket discounts to local and national theaters and other special offers
Eligibility for discounts and opportunities related to SFFS Filmmaker Services
One Cinevoucher 10-pack per member
One ticket per member to SFIFF Opening Night film and party
One hour of project development consulting with Filmmaker Services
Recognition onscreen at SFIFF and throughout the year
Recognition in the SFIFF Guide
Invitations to exclusive receptions and special events
Concierge ticketing and priority ticketing during SFIFF
No limit on number of tickets purchased at member rate
One SFIFF Cinevisa per member
Access to the SFIFF Hospitality Lounge
Tickets and priority seating to year-round SFFS screenings
Exclusive reception with a special SFFS guest
Opportunity to sponsor a film at SFIFF
Tax-deductible portion
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Become a member
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George Gund IV
Grants for the Arts
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$25,000–$99,999
Thomas G. Ayers, Jr. in Memoriam
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Holly Cao* and Bob Hellman
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The Hearst Foundations
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Leslie Berriman and Nion McEvoy
Celeste* and Anthony Meier
Nicola Miner and Robert Mailer Anderson
Jessica and Jason Moment
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Barbara Tomber* and Don Mathews
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Jessica and John Montague
Ronald Hayden and Daniel Murphy
Minette Nelson and David Eckles
Susan and William Oberndorf
Nonie Ramsay
Holly and Marc Ruxin*
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Susan Swig
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VISA
Anne and Roger Walther
$1,500–$4,999
Edward Abratowski
Joe Bamberg
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Honorable Willie Brown, Jr.
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Guerrino De Luca
Tommy DeHennis
Danita Delce
Melissa R. Dodd
Linda Dodwell
Netta and Michael Fedor
Laura and John Fisher
Goldman Sachs
Olga Perkovic and David Goodstein
Cecily and Bannus Hudson
Henrik Jones
Anne Kaiser and Robert Taylor
Meridee Moore and Kevin King
Elizabeth King
Adam Klein
Kim and Robert Kristoff
Herbert Kurz
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Becca Prowda and Daniel Lurie
Cynthia and Woody Marshall
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Janice and Howard Oringer
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Gina and Stuart Peterson
Mary Prendiville and Richard Lopez
J. R. Pryor
Gregg Rickman
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Carole Rutherford
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Community Foundation
Marvin Sommer
Paul Spiegel
Jane Spray
Catherine and Edward Topham
Laurie and Jeff Ubben
Barbara and Charles Winton
Douglas and Jane Wolf
Cameo Wood
Paul Zaentz
$900–$1,499
Deborah Bailey
The Black Dog Private Foundation, Inc.
Sonja E. Blomquist
Kathleen Budge
Carolyn and C. Preston Butcher
Bernadette and Len Christensen
Kate and David Chung
Robert Culley
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Funny How Films
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[ DONORS ]
The San Francisco Film Society is grateful for the support of the following donors who contributed from January 1 to December 31, 2013.
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Lawrence Wilkinson
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* indicates current board member
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[ ATTENDING THE FESTIVAL ]
TICKETS
TICKET PACKAGES
where to buy tickets
REGULAR PROGRAMS
CINEVOUCHER 10-PACK
DURING THE FESTIVAL
In person:
Open daily at 11:00 am
General admission
$15
$120 members, $140 general public
Senior/student/disabled $14
Member $13
Children (12 and under) $10
A CineVoucher 10-pack is the most flexible way to
see films at the Festival at a discount. These
10-packs can be redeemed for up to ten regularly
priced, non-rush screenings online or in person
at select Festival venues. CineVouchers are valid
for one year form purchase date and may also be
used at designated, year-round SFFS screenings
and events.
*We have eliminated all online buying fees
Ticket prices for Big Nights, Live & Onstage,
Tributes and other special programs may vary. If
you require wheelchair seating, notify the box office
when placing an order. Valid ID required to receive
discounts.
DAY-OF TICKETS
Each day of the Festival, tickets may be released for
that day’s rush screenings. Pending availability,
tickets may be purchased online or in person at the
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas starting at noon. Not all
shows will have tickets released, and purchasing is
first-come, first-served.
RUSH TICKETS
Last-minute tickets—known as rush tickets—may
be available just before showtime when advance
tickets have sold out. Approximately ten minutes
prior to the screening, empty seats are counted and
will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis to
those in line. Members must have valid SFFS
membership card in hand to receive discount in
Rush Line. Rush tickets are not available at the
Pacific Film Archive Theater.
ARRIVE EARLY!
Ticket and pass holders must arrive 15 minutes
prior to show time to guarantee admission. Ticket
or pass holders arriving less than 15 minutes prior
to showtime cannot be guaranteed a seat, even with
a ticket or a pass. All sales are final. No refunds or
exchanges will be given to ticket or pass holders
turned away after this time.
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CINEVISA
$1200 members, $1500 general public*
A CineVisa is the ultimate way to experience every
moment of the Festival. The CineVisa grants
admission to every public SFIFF film, party and
program, with the exception of Film Society Awards
Night at Bimbo’s 365 Club. Just show your CineVisa
to get access to the Priority Seating line, which
gives you early admittance to every show. See sffs.
org/tickets for more details.
*limited quantities available
HOW TO BUY TICKETS
Purchase online: festival.sffs.org
April 1-3 members only
April 4 general public on sale
The pre-festival box office is located at:
April 3 – 24
Open daily 3:30–7:30 pm
New People Cinema
1746 Post Street (near Webster)
Open daily one hour before first screening of the day
Castro Theatre*
Pacific Film Archive Theater*
2575 Bancroft Way (at Bowditch), Berkeley
*Day-of show only, cash only
THE FINE PRINT
All orders are final. No refunds, exchanges,
substitutions or replacements will be issued.
All delivery-by-mail orders will be charged a
$3.00 fee per mailed order. No tickets will be
mailed until April 10th. No tickets will be
mailed after April 14th.
For complete ticket information and policies,
visit festival.sffs.org
Liquor laws will fully restrict attendance after
6pm on weekdays and 3pm on weekends in
House 3 and House 4 of the Sundance Kabuki
Cinemas to patrons over 21 years of age.
Additionally, Patrons under 21 must sit in the
orchestra section for all shows in House 1.
Please be ready to present valid photo ID.
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777 Valencia Street (at 18th Street)
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161 Erie Street (at Mission)
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1746 Post Street (near Webster)
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ROE RESTAURANT
651 Howard Street (at Hawthorne)
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DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM
104 Montgomery Street (near Lincoln)
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FILMHOUSE
1426 Fillmore Street, Suite 300
(near Ellis)
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THE GRAND BALLROOM AT
THE REGENCY CENTER
1290 Sutter Streeet (at Van Ness)
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[ TITLE INDEX ]
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Abuse of Weakness
16
Affect vs Effect - The Clarification (s) 32
Agnès Varda: From Here to There 16
Alex of Venice
5
16
All that Jazz
16
All Vows (s)
32
Amazing Catfish, The
16
16
Angels (s)
31
Art and Craft 17
Bad Hair
17
Barn Dance (s)
31
17
Bay Area Girls Rock Camp (s)
32
Belle
17
Birds’ Blessing, The (s)
31
Black Rock Creek (s)
32
Blind Dates
17
Blue Wave, The
17
Borgman
18
Boyhood
18
Boyhood (s)
32
Bright (s)
32
Burt’s Buzz
18
Cesar’s Last Fast
18
Child of God
18
Chinese Puzzle
18
Claustrum, The (s)
32
Close the Lid, Gently (s) 32
Club Sandwich
19
Coast of Death
19
Coherence
19
Cookie Wars (s)
32
Cosmic Flower Unfolding (s)
31
Dad’s Stick (s)
32
Dam Keeper, The (s)
32
Dance of the Death (s)
31
Dear White People
19
DeLuce 2: Architectura (s)
32
Deserted (s)
31
Difret
19
Dog, The
19
Double, The
20
Drunker Than a Skunk (s)
31
Dune, The
20
Eastern Boys
20
Entr’Acte (s)
32
Entropic Apogee (s)
32
Epitaph (s)
32
Farther than the Eye Can See (s) 32
Fat Chance (s)
32
Fed Up
20
Firestorm
20
Frank
20
Freedom Summer
21
Gloria Victoria (s)
31
Great Museum, The
21
Happiness
21
Harmony Lessons
21
Heaven Adores You
21
Hellion
21
High Five, The (s)
28
History of Fear
22
I Want My Hat Back (s)
32
22
Impossible Light
22
In-between Worlds (s)
31
Inside the Ring (s)
32
Intruders
22
22
Lady Eve, The 22
Last Season, The
23
Last Weekend
23
Little Accidents
23
Little Block of Cement with
Disheveled Hair Containing the
Sea (s)
32
Little Girl (s)
32
Little Vulvah and Her Clitoral
Awareness (s)
31
Lost and Found (s)
32
Lunch with Yoshi (s)
32
Manakamana
23
23
Manos Sucias
23
28
28
Master’s Voice, The: Caveirao (s) 31
Metamorfoza (s)
32
Militant, The
28
Missing Scarf, The (s)
31
My Mom Is an Airplane (s)
32
Mystery (s)
31
Night Moves
28
28
No One but Lydia (s)
31
28
Numberlys, The (s)
32
Numbers & Friends (s)
32
Obvious Child
29
Of Horses and Men
29
Oh Willy... (s)
31
Other One, The: The Long, Strange
Trip of Bob Weir
29
Our Sunhi
29
Overnighters, The
29
Palo Alto
29
Paradigm (s)
32
Ping Pong Summer
30
Pioneer
30
Point Reyes, CA (s)
32
Queen Margot: The Director’s Cut 30
Queen Takes Pawn (s)
32
Rancher, The (s)
31
Re:Awakenings (s)
31
Reconstruction, The
30
Return to Homs
30
Sacrament, The
30
Salvation Army
31
Santa Cruz del Islote (s)
31
School of Babel
31
Seventh Walk, The
31
Shadows of Senghenydd (s)
32
Silent (s)
32
Sin Madre (s)
32
66, Episode 1: ICHOR (s)
32
Skeleton Twins, The
32
Soul Food Stories
32
Soup of the Day (s)
32
South Is Nothing
33
So You’ve Grown Attached (s)
31
Spacetime (s)
32
Sprout (s)
32
33
Standup Planet
8
33
Stop the Show (aka WAR) (s)
31
Story of Children and Film, A
33
Stray Dogs
33
Study in Natural Magic, A (s)
32
Subconscious Password (s)
31
Supermensch: The Legend of
Shep Gordon
33
34
Tangerines
34
10,000 Hours (s)
32
Ten Thousand Waves
34
34
Tip Top
34
Tonnerre
34
4
Tracks
35
Trap Street
35
Trip to Italy, The
35
35
Unknown, The
9
Very Large Increase in the Size,
Amount, or Importance of
Something Over a Very Short
Period of Time, A (s)
31
Walking Grainy (s)
32
We Are the Best!
35
We Come as Friends
35
What Now? Remind Me
36
36
When Life Hands You Lemons (s) 32
White Shadow
36
Young & Beautiful
36
Yves Saint Laurent
36
Zima (s)
31
(s)=short
22
28
30
Australia
Tracks (coproduction, setting)
35
Austria
Great Museum, The
We Come as Friends (coproduction)
21
35
Belgium
Abuse of Weakness (coproduction)
Birds’ Blessing, The (s)
Oh Willy... (s)
Stop the Pounding Heart (coproduction)
Tip Top (coproduction)
16
31
31
33
34
Bhutan
Happiness (setting)
21
Brazil
Agnès Varda: From Here to There (setting)
Master’s Voice, The: Caveirao (s)
(coproduction, setting)
Georgia
Blind Dates
Tangerines (coproduction, setting)
17
34
Philippines
23
28
Portugal
What Now? Remind Me
36
Qatar
History of Fear (coproduction)
22
Romania
Metabolism
36
Germany
Abuse of Weakness (coproduction)
Blue Wave, The (coproduction)
Harmony Lessons (coproduction)
Of Horses and Men (coproduction)
Pioneer (coproduction)
Queen Margot: The Director’s Cut
(coproduction)
Return to Homs (coproduction)
Very Large Increase in the Size, Amount, or
Importance of Something Over a Very
Short Period of Time, A (s) (coproduction)
White Shadow (coproduction)
31
36
Greece
17
33
31
Bulgaria
Soul Food Stories
Hong Kong
Firestorm
16
20
32
Canada
Burt’s Buzz
Gloria Victoria (s)
Numbers & Friends (s)
Soup of the Day (s)
Subconscious Password (s)
Iceland
Of Horses and Men
29
18
31
32
32
31
India
Seventh Walk, The
31
Spain
Coast of Death
19
Little Block of Cement with Disheveled Hair
Containing the Sea (s)
Mystery (s)
31
Iran
28
Sudan
We Come as Friends (setting)
35
16
30
35
China
(coproduction, setting)
Firestorm (coproduction, setting)
Ten Thousand Waves (setting)
Three Letters from China (setting)
Trap Street
16
Ethiopia
Difret
Finland
Happiness (coproduction)
Soul Food Stories (coproduction)
France
Abuse of Weakness
Chinese Puzzle
Dune, The
Eastern Boys
Happiness
Harmony Lessons (coproduction)
Master’s Voice, The: Caveirao (s)
School of Babel
South Is Nothing (coproduction)
Stray Dogs (coproduction)
Tip Top
Tonnerre
Walking Grainy (s)
We Come as Friends
Metabolism (coproduction)
Young & Beautiful
Yves Saint Laurent
Russia
Dance of the Death (s)
Short Period of Time, A (s)
Zima (s)
31
31
South Korea
Intruders
Our Sunhi
Sprout (s)
22
29
32
16
31
32
20
31
Israel
Deserted (s)
Dune, The (coproduction)
Sweden
We Are the Best!
31
20
Italy
(coproduction)
South Is Nothing
Stop the Pounding Heart (coproduction)
Trip to Italy, The (coproduction, setting)
White Shadow
Switzerland
Salvation Army (setting)
31
34
16
30
33
33
35
36
Syria
Return to Homs
30
Taiwan
Stray Dogs
33
36
34
Japan
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (setting)
Tanzania
White Shadow (coproduction, setting)
22
34
32
28
19
Jordan
Farther than the Eye Can See (s) (coproduction) 32
Thailand
Lunch with Yoshi (s)
Turkey
Blue Wave, The
17
United Arab Emirates
Farther than the Eye Can See (s)
32
16
20
32
34
35
16
Denmark
Little Vulvah and Her Clitoral Awareness (s) 31
Estonia
Tangerines
30
30
Ireland
Frank
Missing Scarf, The (s)
Colombia
Manos Sucias (coproduction, setting)
23
Santa Cruz del Islote (s) (coproduction, setting) 31
Costa Rica
16
16
17
21
22
29
30
21
30
32
16
16
18
20
20
21
21
22
22
31
30
30
31
33
33
34
34
4
32
35
36
36
36
Kazakhstan
Harmony Lessons
17
21
Luxembourg
Tip Top (coproduction)
34
Mexico
Amazing Catfish, The
Club Sandwich
16
19
Morocco
Salvation Army
31
Nepal
Manakamana (coproduction, setting)
23
Netherlands
Borgman
Metamorfoza (s)
17
18
32
Norway
Pioneer
30
Peru
Bad Hair (coproduction)
17
United Kingdom
Belle
Dad’s Stick (s)
Double, The
Frank (coproduction, setting)
Little Girl (s)
Shadows of Senghenydd (s)
Stop the Show (aka WAR) (s)
Story of Children and Film, A
Ten Thousand Waves
Tracks
Trip to Italy, The
Short Period of Time, A (s) (coproduction)
31
Uruguay
Militant, The
28
22
17
32
20
20
32
32
31
33
34
35
35
35
4
USA
Affect vs Effect - The Clarification (s)
32
Agnès Varda: From Here to There (setting) 16
Alex of Venice
5
All that Jazz
16
All Vows (s)
32
Angels (s)
31
Art and Craft 17
Barn Dance (s)
31
Bay Area Girls Rock Camp (s)
32
Black Rock Creek (s)
32
Boyhood
18
Boyhood (s)
32
Bright Mirror (s)
32
Cesar’s Last Fast
18
Child of God
18
Chinese Puzzle (coproduction, setting)
18
Claustrum, The (s)
32
Close the Lid, Gently (s) 32
Coherence
19
Cookie Wars (s)
32
Cosmic Flower Unfolding (s)
31
Dam Keeper, The (s)
32
Dear White People
19
DeLuce 2: Architectura (s)
32
Dog, The
19
Drunker Than a Skunk (s)
31
Entr’Acte (s)
32
Entropic Apogee (s)
32
Epitaph (s)
32
Fat Chance (s)
32
Fed Up
20
Freedom Summer
21
Heaven Adores You
21
Hellion
21
High Five, The (s)
28
I Want My Hat Back (s)
32
Impossible Light
22
In-between Worlds (s)
31
Inside the Ring (s)
32
22
Lady Eve, The
22
Last Season, The
23
Last Weekend
23
Little Accidents
23
Lost and Found (s)
32
Manakamana
23
Manos Sucias
23
Master’s Voice, The: Caveirao (s) (coproduction)31
32
Night Moves
28
28
No One but Lydia (s)
31
Numberlys, The (s)
32
Numbers & Friends (s) (coproduction)
32
Obvious Child
29
Other One, The: The Long, Strange
Trip of Bob Weir
29
Overnighters, The
29
Palo Alto
29
Paradigm (s)
32
Ping Pong Summer
30
Point Reyes, CA (s)
32
Queen Takes Pawn (s)
32
Rancher, The (s)
31
Re:Awakenings (s)
31
Sacrament, The
30
Santa Cruz del Islote (s)
31
Silent (s)
32
Sin Madre (s)
32
66, Episode 1: ICHOR (s)
32
Skeleton Twins, The
32
So You’ve Grown Attached (s)
31
Spacetime (s)
32
Standup Planet
8
33
Study in Natural Magic, A (s)
32
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon 33
10,000 Hours (s)
32
Ten Thousand Waves (s)
34
4
Unknown, The
9
When Life Hands You Lemons (s)
32
Venezuela
Bad Hair
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History of Fear
Militant, The (coproduction)
Reconstruction, The
17
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