San Francisco Film Society



<< return to press room index		49th San Francisco International Film Festival Premieres Festival Features World, North American, U.S. and West Coast Premiere March 28, 2006 World Premieres Runners High North American Premieres All About Love Clouds of Yesterday Eden Gubra Lili and the Baobab Looking for Madonna See You in Space Seeds of Doubt A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (Or the Prolonged Sorrow of Filipinos) Taking Father Home You Are My Sunshine U.S. Premieres Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw Delicate Crime The Dignity of the Nobodies The Eye of the Pilot I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed Illumination October 17, 1961 Optronica A Perfect Couple Romance & Cigarettes The Silent Holy Stones Strangers in the Neighborhood They Chose China West Coast Premieres Adam’s Apples Al Franken: God Spoke Backstage The Betrayal Beyond the Call The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros The Bridge Brothers of the Head The Descent Encounter Point Executive Koala Factotum Gabrielle The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai The Grönholm Method Half Nelson The House of Himiko The House of Sand In Bed Into Great Silence Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple Lost Domain Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey Northeast Perpetual Motion Le Petit Lieutenant A Prairie Home Companion Princess Raccoon Regular Lovers Sa-Kwa Shooting Under Fire The Shutka Book of Records Smiling in a War Zone Sólo Dios Sabe Waiting Who Killed the Electric Car? Wide Awake The Wild Blue Yonder Founded in 1957, the vanguard San Francisco International Film Festival is the longest-running film festival in the Americas. Held each spring for two weeks, the International is an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and innovation in the country’s most beautiful city, featuring some 200 films and live events with more than 100 filmmakers in attendance, presenting some 22 awards and attracting a diverse audience of nearly 80,000 people. The 49th International runs April 20–May 4, 2006 at the Kabuki 8 Theatres, the Castro Theatre 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, as well as several smaller venues. To purchase tickets and for ticket information log on to www.sffs.org, call 925.866.9559 or visit the Main Ticket Outlet at the Kabuki 8 Theatres (1881 Post Street) or the Satellite Ticket Outlet at Virgin Megastore (2 Stockton Street). For additional information log on to www.sffs.org or call 415.561.5000. San Francisco Film Society, presenter of the flagship SFIFF, is a nonprofit arts and educational organization dedicated to celebrating the world of film and media in all its glorious forms. In early 2006 the Film Society unveiled SF360, a broad-spectrum series of initiatives designed to showcase the extraordinary vitality, variety and innovation of the San Francisco Bay Area film and media scene, including www.sf360.org, SF360 San Francisco Movie Night, SF360 InSchool Cinemas and the SF360 Festival of Festivals. The Film Society will present the first annual San Francisco International Animation Festival from October 11–15, 2006 and a new SF International Youth Media Festival in 2007. First to 50: SFIFF will hold its landmark 50th anniversary in April 2007. This release and future press releases will be available in the Press Room at www.sffs.org.