March 29, 2005

48th SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
April 21-May 5, 2005

GENERAL INFORMATION

185 FILMS

49 COUNTRIES REPRESENTED

79 NARRATIVE FEATURES

35 DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

71 SHORTS

14 WORLD PREMIERES

3 INTERNATIONAL PREMIERES

22 NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERES

8 U.S. PREMIERES

AWARDS

Peter J. Owens Award — Joan Allen

Film Society Award for Lifetime Achievement in Directing —Taylor Hackford

Mel Novikoff Award — Anita Monga

Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award — Adam Curtis

Kanbar Award — Paul Haggis

Golden Gate Awards — 14 winners to be announced on May 4 at the Golden Gate Awards ceremony.

SKYY Prize — Winner to be announced on May 4 at the Golden Gate Awards ceremony.

Virgin Megastore Audience Awards — To be announced on May 5.

FIPRESCI Jury Prize — Winner to be announced on May 4 at the Golden Gate Awards ceremony.

DATES AND SCREENING VENUES

48th San Francisco International Film Festival will screen:

• April 22—May 5 at the AMC Kabuki 8 Theatres, 1881 Post Street (at Fillmore)
• April 21, 24, 27, 29, 30 and May 5 at the Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street (near Market)
• April 22—May 5 at the Pacific Film Archive Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way and Bowditch Street in Berkeley
• April 23 and 25 at the Palace of Fine Arts, 3301 Lyon Street
• April 28 at Kanbar Hall of the Jewish Community Center, 3200 California Street (at Presidio)
• May 1—4 at Landmark's Aquarius Theatre, 430 Emerson Street, Palo Alto

The 48th San Francisco International Film Festival runs April 21—May 5, 2005 at the AMC Kabuki 8 Theatres, the Home of the Festival, the Castro Theatre, the Palace of Fine Arts, Kanbar Hall at the Jewish Community Center and the Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco; the Pacific Film Archive Theater in Berkeley; and Landmark's Aquarius Theatre in Palo Alto. Tickets for San Francisco Film Society members will be available on March 29 and for the general public on April 5. To purchase tickets and for ticket information log on to www.sffs.org, call 925.866.9559 or visit the Main Ticket Outlet, located in the atrium of the AMC Kabuki 8 Theatres, 1881 Post Street or the Satellite Ticket Outlet at the Virgin Megastore, 2 Stockton Street. For up-to-date Festival information log on to www.sffs.org or call 415.561.5000.

The 48th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21—May 5, 2005) is presented by the San Francisco Film Society, a nonprofit arts and educational organization dedicated to celebrating international film and the moving image.