45th SAN FRANCISCO
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
April 18 – May 2, 2002
Films Of Special Interest
L’Afrance, Alain Gomis France
BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY TOON (shorts program)
Black Soul, Martine Chartrand Canada
Karmen Geï, Joseph Gaï Ramaka Senegal
Late Marriage, Dover Kosahvili Israel
The Price of Forgiveness, Mansour Sora Wade France
THEY CAME FROM THE BAY (shorts program)
Dear Judge, Laleh Soomekh USA
A Conversation with Haris, Sheila Sofian USA
BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY TOON (shorts program)
Black Soul, Martine Chartrand Canada
Home Road Movies, Robert Bradbrook
UK
Hubert’s Brain, Phil Robinson USA
Into the Dark, Dennis Tupicoff Australia
Love is All, Oliver Harrison
UK
Rocks, Chris Tenner, Heidi Wittlinger,
Arvid Uibel Germany
Strange Invaders, Cordell Barker (short) Canada
The Cat with Hands, Robert Morgan
UK
The Visit, Tanya Haden USA
Vessel Wrestling, Lisa Yu USA
Copy Shop, Virgil Widrich (short) Austria
Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki Japan
ARABIC/MIDDLE
EASTERN/NORTH AFRICAN
Beneath the Borqa in Afghanistan, Iara Lee (short) USA
Birju, Heeraz Marfatia USA
(over)
Delbaran, Abolfazl Jalilli Iran
Far Away, André Téchiné France
Fatma, Khaled Ghorbal Tunisia
The Green Cold, Nasser Saffarian Iran
Inch’ Allah Sunday, Yamina Benguigui France
The Inner Tour, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz Israel
The Journey to Kafiristan, Fosco & Donatello Dubini Switzerland
Late Marriage, Dover Kosahvili Israel
Secret Ballot, Babak Payami Iran
War and Peace, Anand Patwardhan India
Who Hangs the Laundry?, Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir, Tina
Naccache Iceland/Lebanon
CANYON CINEMA’S VILLAGE OF VISIONS (shorts program)
The Man We Want to
Hang, Kenneth Anger USA
The Mirror of the Soul, Nasser Saffarian (short) Iran
Photos to Send, Dierdre Lynch USA
Rivers and Tides, Thomas Riedelsheimer Germany
The Subconscious Art of Graffiti
Removal, Matt
McCormick USA
ASIAN and ASIAN AMERICAN
All About Lily Chou Chou, Shunji Iwai Japan
Asoka, Santosh Sivan India
China 21, Ruby Yang USA
Dance of a Dream, Andrew Lau Wai-Keung Hong Kong
Daughter from Danang, Gail Dolgin, Vincente Franco USA
Distance, Hirokazu Kore-Eda Japan
Face, Bertha Bay-Sa Pan USA
Failan, Song Hye-Sung
South Korea
Fulltime Killer, Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai Hong Kong
Go, Isao Yukisada Japan
Go for Broke, Wang Guangli China
Happy Times, Xingfu Shiguang China
I Love Beijing, Ning Ying China
Ichi the Killer, Takashi Miike Japan
IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL (shorts program)
Delivery Day, Jane Manning Australia
July Rhapsody, Ann Hui Hong Kong
Millennium Mambo, Hou Hsiao-Hsien Taiwan
Musa the Warrior, Sung-Soo Kim South Korea
One Fine Spring Day, Jin-Ho Hur
South Korea
One Take Only, Oxide Pang Chun Thailand
Orange Juice and Knitting Needles, Erica Peng (short) USA
Pistol Opera, Seijun Suzuki Japan
The Princess Blade, Sato Shinsuke Japan
Sea in the Blood, Richard Fung (short) USA
Somewhere on Earth, Kiseki Hamada Japan
Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki Japan
War and Peace, Anand Patwardhan India
Warm Water Under A Red Bridge, Shohei Imamura Japan
(more)
Waterboys, Shinobu Yaguchi Japan
AUSTRALIAN
BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY TOON (shorts program)
Into the Dark, Dennis Tupicoff Australia
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky, Paul Cox Australia
IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL (shorts program)
Delivery Day, Jane Manning Australia
La Spagnola, Steve Jacobs Australia
Go for Broke, Wang Guangli China
Swimming with Sharks, George Huang USA
Time Out, Laurent Cantet France
The Trespasser, Beto Brant Brazil
BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY TOON (shorts program)
Home
Road Movies, Robert
Bradbrook
UK
CANYON CINEMA’S VILLAGE OF
VISIONARIES (shorts
program)
The Man We Want to
Hang, Kenneth Anger USA
A Hospital Remembers, Mark Kidel
UK
Kissed by Angels, Daniela Zanzotto England
The Lady and The Duke, Eric Rohmer France
Me Without You, Sandra Goldbacher
UK
Stalin: Red God, Frederick Baker
UK
Taking the Wheel, David Ackerman (short) USA
CANADIAN
BY THE LIGHTOF THE
SILVERY TOON (shorts
program)
Black Soul, Martine Chartrand Canada
Strange Invaders, Cordell Barker Canada
IT’S A SMALL WORLD
AFTER ALL (shorts
program)
A Man of Substance, Jana Sinyor Canada
Olivia’s Puzzle, Jason DaSilva Canada
Last Wedding, Bruce Sweeney Canada
Sea in the Blood, Richard Fung (short) Canada
What These Ashes Wanted, Philip Hoffman Canada
25 Watts, Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll Uruguay
Asoka, Santosh Sivan India
Bulworth, Warren Beatty USA
BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY TOON (shorts program)
Black Soul, Martine Chartrand Canada
(over)
Cherish, Finn Taylor USA
CQ, Roman Coppola USA
Dance of a Dream, Andrew Lau Wai-Keung Hong Kong
Dogtown and Z-Boys, Stacy Peralta USA
Failan, Song Hye-Sung
South Korea
Fulltime Killer, Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai Hong Kong
The Green Cold, Nasser Saffarian Iran
I’m Going Home, Manoel de Olivera Portugal
Ichi the Killer, Takashi Miike Japan
Journeys with George, Alexandra Pelosi USA
Last Wedding, Bruce Sweeney Canada
May, Lucky McKee USA
Me Without You, Sandra Goldbacher
UK
MEMORY ARCADE (shorts program)
This Side of Paradise:
Fragments of an Unfinished Biography, Jonas Mekas USA
My Buddy, Ze Ketti, Nelson Pereira des Santos
(short) Brazil
My Voyage to Italy, Martin Scorsese USA
On the Set of CQ, Eleanor Coppola USA
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Laura Betti Italy
Ravi Shankar: Between Two Worlds, Mark Kidel USA
Reds, Warren Beatty USA
Rivers and Tides, Thomas Riedelsheimer Germany
SHORTS IN A FEATURE LENGTH WORLD (shorts program)
Inside, Trevor Sands USA
Somewhere on Earth, Kiseki Hamada Japan
Swimming with Sharks, George Huang USA
Taking the Wheel, David Ackerman (short) USA
Thirteen Conversations About One
Thing, Jill
Sprecher USA
The Triumph of Love, Clare Peploe Italy
Uncle Frank, Matthew Ginsburg USA
Veloma, Marie de Laubier France
Van Van, Let’s Party, Liliana Mazure and Aaron Vega
Argentina
A Conversation with Haris, Sheila Sofian USA
Copy Shop, Virgil Widrich Austria
Good Husband, Dear Son, Heddy Honigmann The Netherlands
IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL (shorts program)
No, Dragos Bogdan Luga Romania
Let There Be Water, Neven Hitrec Croatia
Lucy Tsak Tsak, Andrey Paounov Bulgaria
Memory Arcade (shorts program)
Switch Center, Ericka Beckman (in collaboration
w/ Balazs) USA
On the Edge of Time: Male Domains in the Caucasus, Stefan Toiz Germany
Sisters, Sergei Bodrov Jr. Russia
The Wild Bees, Bohdan Sláma Czech Republic
China 21, Ruby Yang USA
Dance of a Dream, Andrew Lau Wai-Keung Hong Kong
(more)
Face, Bertha Bay-Sa Pan USA
Fulltime Killer, Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai Hong Kong
Go for Broke, Wang Guangli China
Happy Times, Xingfu Shiguang China
I Love Beijing, Ning Ying China
July Rhapsody, Ann Hui Hong Kong
Millennium Mambo, Hou Hsiao-Hsien Taiwan
Musa the Warrior, Sung-Soo Kim
South Korea
Orange Juice and Knitting Needles, Erica Peng (short) USA
ENVIRONMENTAL
BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY TOON (shorts program)
Rocks, Chris Tenner, Heidi Wittlinger,
Arvid Uibel (short) Germany
Rivers and Tides, Thomas Riedelsheimer Germany
YOUTH OR CONSEQUENCES (shorts program)
Lachrymose, Moses Venegas USA
BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY TOON (shorts program)
The Cat with Hands, Robert Morgan
UK
Vessel Wrestling, Lisa Yu USA
CANYON
CINEMA’S VILLAGE OF VISIONARIES (shorts program)
Black Vision, Stan Brakhage USA
Calling All Cars, Al Alvarez USA
Dream Works (for Man
Ray), Peter
Tscherkassky USA
Hand Eye Coordination, Naomi Uman USA
The Man We Want to
Hang, Kenneth Anger USA
Micromoth, Julie Murray USA
Photograph of Wind, Lynne Sachs USA
Pieta, Bruce Baillie
USA
To Re-Edit the World, David Sherman USA
Decasia, Bill Morrison USA
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky, Paul Cox Australia
MEMORY
ARCADE (shorts
program)
Cotton Candy, Ernie Gehr USA
Counterfeit Film, Brett Simon USA
CREPESCULE: Pond &
Chair, Sandra Davis USA
Going Back Home, Louise Bourque USA
This Side of Paradise:
Fragments of an Unfinished Biography, Jonas Mekas USA
Switch Center, Ericka Beckman (in collaboration
w/ Balazs) USA
To Re-Edit the World, David Sherman USA
What These Ashes Wanted, Phillip Hoffman Canada
Boogie Woogie Daddy, Erik Bäfving Sweden
Daddy & Papa, Johnny Symons USA
Dear Judge, Laleh Soomekh USA
Distance, Hirokazu Kore-Eda Japan
(over)
El Bola, Achero Mañas Spain
Face, Bertha Bay-Sa Pan USA
Getting My Brother Laid (aka My Brother the Vampire), Sven Taddicken Germany
Gregor’s Greatest Invention, Johannes Kiefer (short) Germany
IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL (shorts program)
Delivery Day, Jane Manning Australia
La Spagnola, Steve Jacobs Australia
The Last Kiss, Gabriele Muccino Italy
Late Marriage, Dover Kosahvili Israel
MEMORY ARCADE (shorts program)
This Side of Paradise: Fragments of an Unfinished Biography, Jonas
Mekas USA
Nights of Constantinople, Orlando Rojas Cuba
The Safety of Objects, Rose Troche USA
Taking the Wheel, David Ackerman (short) USA
To the Left of the Father, Luiz Fernando Carvalho Brazil
Uncle Frank, Matthew Ginsburg
USA
IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL (shorts program)
A Man of Substance, Jana Sinyor Canada
Birju, Heeraz Marfatia USA
The Day I Decided to
be Nina, Ingeborg
Jansen The Netherlands
Delivery Day, Jane Manning Australia
No, Dragos Bogdan Luga Romania
Olivia’s Puzzle, Jason DaSilva
Canada
Ow!, Jill Norton USA
L’Afrance, Alain Gomis France
Brief Crossing, Brève Traversée France
Cet Amour-Là, Josée Dayan France
Cowhide, Gerald Hustache-Mathieu (short) France
CQ, Roman Coppola USA
Derrida, Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering Kofman
USA/France
Far Away, André Téchiné France
Fatma, Khaled Ghorbal Tunisia
A Hospital Remembers, Mark Kidel
UK
I’m Going Home, Manoel de Olivera Portugal
In Praise of Love, Jean-Luc Godard Switzerland
Inch’ Allah Sunday, Yamina Benguigui France
Karmen Geï, Joseph Gaï Ramaka Senegal
The Lady and the Duke, Eric Rohmer
France
The Milk of Human Kindness, Dominique Cabréra France
My Wife is an Actress, Yvan Attal France
Oporto of My Childhood, Manoel de Oliveria Portugal
The Price of Forgiveness, Mansour Sora Wade France
Read my Lips, Jacques Audiard France
Time Out, Laurent Cantet France
Veloma, Marie de Laubier France
Vivante, Sandrine Ray France
(more)
GERMAN
LANGUAGE and INTEREST
Gregor’s Greatest Invention, Johannes Kiefer (short) Germany
My Brother the Vampire (aka Getting My Brother Laid), Sven Taddicken Germany
On the Edge of Time:
Male Domains in the Caucasus, Stefan Toiz Germany
Rivers and Tides, Thomas Riedelsheimer Germany
BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY TOON (shorts program)
Rocks, Chris Tenner,
Heidi Wittlinger, Arvid Uibel Germany
IMMIGRATION
L’Afrance, Alain Gomis France
Bastards in Paradise, Luis R. Vera Chile
A Conversation with Haris, Sheila Sofian USA
Daughter from Danang, Gail Dolgin, Vincente Franco USA
Face, Bertha Bay-Sa Pan USA
Failan, Song Hye-Sung
South Korea
Far Away, André Téchiné France
Delbaran, Abolfazl Jalilli Iran
Go, Isao Yukisada Japan
Inch’ Allah Sunday, Yamina Benguigui France
IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL (shorts program)
Delivery Day, Jane Manning Australia
La Spagnola, Steve Jacobs Australia
Olivia’s Puzzle, Jason DaSilva (short) Canada
INDIAN LANGUAGE and
INTEREST
Asoka, Santosh Sivan India
IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL (shorts program)
Birju, Heeraz Marfatia USA
Olivia’s Puzzle, Jason DaSilva Canada
Ravi Shankar: Between Two Worlds, Mark Kidel USA
War and Peace, Anand Patwardhan India
YOUTH OR CONSEQUENCES (shorts program)
Dil Se: From the Heart, Rubin Polizzi India
ITALIAN LANGUAGE and INTEREST
My Voyage to Italy, Martin Scorsese USA
The Last Kiss, Gabriele Muccino Italy
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Laura Betti Italy
Teorema, Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy
The Triumph of Love, Clare Peploe Italy
IRISH
Photos to Send, Dierdre Lynch USA
(over)
JAPANESE LANGUAGE and
INTEREST
All About Lily Chou Chou, Shunji Iwai Japan
Distance, Hirokazu Kore-Eda Japan
Fulltime Killer, Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai Hong Kong
Go, Isao Yukisada Japan
Ichi the Killer, Takashi Miike Japan
Pistol Opera, Seijun Suzuki Japan
The Princess Blade, Sato Shinsuke Japan
Somewhere on Earth, Kiseki Hamada Japan
Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki Japan
Superchunk and Kinugasa: A Page of Madness, Teinosuke Kinugasa Japan
Warm Water Under A Red Bridge, Shohei Imamura Japan
Waterboys, Shinobu Yaguchi Japan
JEWISH
The Inner Tour, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz
Israel
Late Marriage, Dover Kosahvili Israel
THEY CAME FROM THE BAY (shorts program)
Minute Matrimony, Yoav Potash USA
KOREAN LANGUAGE and
INTEREST
Failan, Song Hye-Sung
South Korea
Go, Isao Yukisada Japan
Musa the Warrior, Sung-Soo Kim South Korea
One Fine Spring Day, Jin-Ho Hur
South Korea
LITERATURE RELATED
Cet Amour-Là, Josée Dayan France
Derrida, Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering Kofman
USA/France
Elling, Petter Naess Norway
The Green Cold, Nasser Saffarian Iran
The Mirror of the Soul, Nasser Saffarian (short) Iran
The Safety of Objects, Rose Troche USA
Rain, Christine Jeffs New
Zealand
Somewhere on Earth, Kiseki Hamada Japan
Ulalume, David Sabin (short) USA
BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY TOON (shorts program)
Hubert’s Brain, Phil Robinson
USA
Cherish, Finn Taylor USA
China 21, Ruby Yang USA
CQ, Roman Coppola USA
Daddy & Papa, Johnny Symons USA
Daughter from Danang, Gail Dolgin, Vincente Franco USA
(more)
IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL (shorts program)
Birju, Heeraz Marfatia USA
Journeys with George, Alexandra Pelosi USA
May, Lucky McKee USA
No Dumb Questions, Melissa Regan (short) USA
On the Set of CQ, Eleanor Coppola USA
Photos to Send, Dierdre Lynch USA
Teknolust, Lynn Hershman Leeson USA
THEY CAME FROM THE BAY (shorts program)
Dear Judge, Laleh Soomekh USA
Hypocrite, Davide Chalker (short) USA
Lucy Tsak Tsak, Andrey Paounov Bulgaria
Minute Matrimony, Yoav Potash USA
Prayer, Jay Rosenblatt USA
Ulalume, David Sabin USA
Thoth, Sarah Kernochan (short) USA
YOUTH OR CONSEQUENCES (shorts program)
As if it Matters, TILT, LYRIC and GSA Network USA
Everyday Eastlake, Reel Peeps Video Youth USA
A House with a View of the Sea, Alberto Arvelo Venezuela
Brief Crossing, Brève Traversée France
BY THE LIGHTOF THE SILVERY TOON (shorts program)
Love is All, Oliver Harrison
UK
The Visit, Tanya Haden USA
Cet Amour-Là, Josée Dayan France
Cherish, Finn Taylor USA
Failan, Song Hye-Sung
South Korea
Far Away, André Téchiné France
Fatma, Khaled Ghorbal Tunisia
Getting My Brother Laid (aka My Brother the Vampire), Sven Taddicken Germany
Gregor’s Greatest Invention, Johannes Kiefer (short) Germany
Happy Times, Xingfu Shiguang China
IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL (shorts program)
A Man of Substance, Jana Sinyor Canada
No, Dragos Bogdan Luga Romania
July Rhapsody, Ann Hui Hong Kong
Karmen Geï, Joseph Gaï Ramaka Senegal
The Last Kiss, Gabriele Muccino Italy
Last Wedding, Bruce Sweeney Canada
Late Marriage, Dover Kosahvili Israel
Me Without You, Sandra Goldbacher
UK
The Milk of Human Kindness, Dominique Cabréra France
Millennium Mambo, Hou Hsiao-Hsien Taiwan
My Wife is an Actress, Yvan Attal France
One Fine Spring Day, Jin-Ho Hur
South Korea
One Take Only, Oxide Pang Chun Thailand
Read My Lips, Jacques Audiard France
Reds, Warren Beatty USA
Rain, Christine Jeffs New
Zealand
The Safety of Objects, Rose Troche USA
(over)
Sea in the Blood, Richard Fung (short) USA
SHORTS IN A FEATURE LENGTH WORLD (shorts program)
Now, Look at Me, Brigitte Staermose Denmark
Smokers Only, Veronica Chen Argentina
Somewhere on Earth, Kiseki Hamada Japan
THEY CAME FROM THE BAY (shorts program)
Dear Judge, Laleh Soomekh USA
Thirteen Conversations About One
Thing, Jill
Sprecher USA
The Triumph of Love, Clare Peploe Italy
Warm Water Under A Red Bridge, Shohei Imamura Japan
What These Ashes Wanted, Phillip Hoffman Canada
YOUTH OR CONSEQUENCES (shorts program)
Lachrymose, Moses Venegas USA
MUSIC/DANCE
All About Lily Chou Chou, Shunji Iwai Japan
Asoka, Santosh Sivan India
BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY TOON (shorts program)
Black Soul, Martine Chartrand Canada
Love is All, Oliver Harrison
UK
Cherish, Finn Taylor USA
Cowhide, Gerald Hustache-Mathieu (Short) France
Dance of a Dream, Andrew Lau Wai-Keung Hong Kong
Decasia, Bill Morrison USA
Derrida, Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering Kofman
USA/France
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky, Paul Cox Australia
Dogtown and Z-Boys, Stacy Peralta USA
Le Grand TANGO, Pieter Jan Smit The Netherlands
Ichi the Killer, Takashi Miike Japan
Karmen Geï, Joseph Gaï Ramaka Senegal
My Buddy, Ze Ketti, Nelson Pereira des Santos (short) Brazil
The Price of Forgiveness, Mansour Sora Wade France
Ravi Shankar: Between Two Worlds, Mark Kidel USA
Rivers and Tides, Thomas Riedelsheimer Germany
Sound of Brazil, Mila Kaurismäki Finland
Superchunk and Kinugasa: A Page of Madness, Teinosuke Kinugasa Japan
Thoth, Sarah Kernochan (short) USA
Tribute, Rich Fox, Kris Curry USA
Ulalume, David Sabin USA
Uncle Frank, Matthew Ginsburg
USA
Van Van, Let’s Party, Liliana Mazure and Aaron Vega Argentina
L’Afrance, Alain Gomis France
Bulworth, Warren Beatty USA
China 21, Ruby Yang USA
Daddy & Papa, Johnny Symons USA
Dear Judge, Laleh Soomekh USA
Go, Isao Yukisada Japan
Go for Broke, Wang Guangli China
(more)
Good Husband, Dear Son, Heddy Honigmann The Netherlands
Hell House, George Ratliff USA
Hope Along the Wind: The Life of Harry Hay, Eric Slade USA
In Praise of Love, Jean-Luc Godard Switzerland
The Inner Tour, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz Israel
The Lady and the Duke, Eric Rohmer
France
Los Inundados, Fernando Birri Argentina
Reds, Warren Beatty USA
Stalin: Red God, Frederick Baker
UK
Tire Dié, Fernando Birri (Short)
Argentina
The Pinochet Case, Patricio Guzmán France
THEY CAME FROM THE BAY (shorts program)
Prayer, Jay Rosenblatt USA
War and Peace, Anand Patwardhan India
Golden Gate, Fernando Meirelles, Katia Lund
(short) Brazil
I’m Going Home, Manoel de Olivera Portugal
La Spagnola, Steve Jacobs Argentina
My Buddy, Ze Ketti, Nelson Pereira des Santos (short) Brazil
News from a Personal War, João Moreira Salles, Katia Lund
(short) Brazil
Oporto of My Childhood, Maanoel de Oliveria Portugal
SHORTS IN A FEATURE LENGTH WORLD (shorts program)
Palindrome, Philippe Barcinski Brazil
Sound of Brazil, Mila Kaurismäki Finland
To the Left of the Father, Luiz Fernando Carvalho
Brazil
The Trespasser, Beto Brant Brazil
YOUTH OR CONSEQUENCES (shorts program)
As if it Matters, TILT, LYRIC and GSA Network USA
Daddy & Papa, Johnny Symons USA
Hope Along the Wind: The Life of
Harry Hay, Eric
Slade USA
IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL (shorts program)
The Day I Decided to
be Nina, Ingeborg
Jansen The Netherlands
The Journey to Kafiristan, Fosco & Donatello Dubini Switzerland
Karmen Geï, Joseph Gaï Ramaka Senegal
May, Lucky McKee USA
Nights of Constantinople, Orlando Rojas Cuba
No Dumb Questions, Melissa Regan (short) USA
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Laura Betti Italy
Smokers Only, Veronica Chen Argentina
Waterboys, Shinobu Yaguchi Japan
RELIGIOUS
A Chronicle of Corpses, Andrew Repasky McElhinney USA
Hell House, George Ratliff USA
Stalin: Red God, Frederick Baker UK
(over)
THEY CAME FROM THE BAY (shorts program)
Prayer, Jay Rosenblatt USA
To the Left of the
Father, Luiz
Fernando Carvalho Brazil
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky, Paul Cox Australia
Late Marriage, Dover Kosahvili
Israel
Reds, Warren Beatty USA
Sisters, Sergei Bodrov Jr. Russia
Stalin: Red God, Frederick Baker
UK
SCANDANAVIAN
Boogie Woogie Daddy, Erik Bäfving Sweden
SHORTS IN A FEATURE LENGTH WORLD (shorts program)
Now,
Look at Me, Brigitte
Staermose Denmark
Truly Human, Ake Sandgren Denmark
SENIOR
Gregor’s Greatest Invention, Johannes Kiefer (short) Germany
I’m Going Home, Manoel de Olivera Portugal
Taking the Wheel, David Ackerman (short) USA
Uncle Frank, Matthew Ginsburg
USA
SLAVIC LANGUAGE and
INTEREST
A Conversation with Haris, Sheila Sofian USA
Good Husband, Dear Son, Heddy Honigmann The Netherlands
Let There Be Water, Neven Hitrec Croatia
On the Edge of Time: Male Domains in the Caucasus, Stefan Toiz Germany
THEY CAME FROM THE BAY (shorts program)
Lucy Tsak Tsak, Andrey Paounov Bulgaria
SPANISH LANGUAGE and
LATINO INTEREST
25 Watts, Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll Uruguay
A House with a View of the Sea, Alberto Arvelo Venezuela
A Taxi for Three, Orlando Lubbert Chile
Bastards in Paradise, Luis R. Vera Chile
Dance of a Dream, Andrew Lau Wai-Keung Hong Kong
Golden Gate, Fernando Meirelles, Katia Lund
(Short) Brazil
I’m Going Home, Manoel de Olivera Portugal
La Spagnola, Steve Jacobs Argentina
Los Inundados, Fernando Birri Argentina
My Buddy, Ze Ketti, Nelson Pereira des Santos (Short) Brazil
News from a Personal War, João Moreira Salles, Katia
Lund (Short) Brazil
(more)
Nights of Constantinople, Orlando Rojas Cuba
Oporto of My Childhood, Maanoel de Oliveria Portugal
The Pinochet Case, Patricio Guzmán France
The Ruination of Men, Arturo Ripstein Mexico
SHORTS IN A FEATURE LENGTH WORLD (shorts program)
Palindrome, Philippe Barcinski Brazil
Sound of Brazil, Mila Kaurismäki Finland
Streeters, Gerardo Tort Mexico
Tire Dié, Fernando Birri (Short)
Argentina
To the Left of the Father, Luiz Fernando Carvalho Brazil
The Trespasser, Beto Brant Brazil
Van Van, Let’s Party, Liliana Mazure and Aaron Vega Argentina
In Praise of Love, Jean-Luc Godard Switzerland
The Journey to Kafiristan, Fosco & Donatello Dubini
Switzerland
TECHNOLOGY/MULTIMEDIA
All About Lily Chou Chou, Shunji Iwai Japan
BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY TOON (shorts program)
The Cat with Hands, Robert Morgan
UK
Decasia, Bill Morrison USA
Go for Broke, Wang Guangli China
The Princess Blade, Sato Shinsuke Japan
Teknolust, Lynn Hershman Leeson USA
THEY CAME FROM THE BAY (shorts program)
Hypocrite, Davide Chalker USA
Beneath the Borqa in Afghanistan, Iara Lee (short) USA
BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY TOON (shorts program)
Black Soul, Martine Chartrand Canada
The Visit, Tanya Haden USA
Brief Crossing, Brève Traversée France
CANYON CINEMA’s VILLAGE OF
VISIONARIES (shorts
program)
Hand Eye Coordination, Naomi Uman USA
Micromoth, Julie Murray USA
Photograph of Wind, Lynne Sachs USA
Cet Amour-Là, Josée Dayan France
China 21, Ruby Yang USA
A Conversation with Haris, Sheila Sofian USA
Daughter from Danang, Gail Dolgin, Vincente Franco USA
Dear Judge, Laleh Soomekh USA
Derrida, Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering Kofman
USA/France
Dogtown and Z-Boys, Stacy Peralta USA
Ezekiel, Sarah Hamady USA
Face, Bertha Bay-Sa Pan USA
Golden Gate, Fernando Meirelles, Katia Lund
(short) Brazil
(over)
Good Husband, Dear Son, Heddy Honigmann The Netherlands
Inch’ Allah Sunday, Yamina Benguigui France
IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL (shorts program)
A Man of Substance, Jana Sinyor Canada
Ow!, Jill Norton USA
Journeys with George, Alexandra Pelosi USA
July Rhapsody, Ann Hui Hong Kong
Kissed by Angels, Daniela Zanzotto England
MEMORY ARCADE (shorts program)
Going Back Home, Louise Bourque USA
Switch Center, Ericka Beckman (in collaboration
w/ Balazs) USA
Me Without You, Sandra Goldbacher UK
The Milk of Human Kindness, Dominique Cabréra France
News from a Personal War, João Moreira Salles, Katia Lund
(short) Brazil
No Dumb Questions, Melissa Regan (short) USA
Orange Juice and Knitting Needles, Erica Peng (short) USA
Photos to Send, Dierdre Lynch USA
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Laura Betti Italy
Rain, Christine Jeffs New
Zealand
Secret Ballot, Babak Payami Iran
Smokers Only, Veronica Chen Argentina
SHORTS IN A FEATURE LENGTH WORLD (shorts program)
Now, Look at Me, Brigitte Staermose Denmark
Thoth, Sarah Kernochan (short)
USA
Tribute, Rich Fox, Kris Curry USA
The Triumph of Love, Clare Peploe Italy
Veloma, Marie de Laubier France
Vessel Wrestling, Lisa Yu (short) USA
Vivante, Sandrine Ray France
Where Are My Children?, Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley USA
Who Hangs the Laundry?, Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir, Tina
Naccache Iceland/Lebanon
Beneath the Borqa in Afghanistan, Iara Lee (short) USA
Brief Crossing, Brève Traversée France
BY THE LIGHTOF THE SILVERY TOON (shorts program)
The Visit, Tanya Haden USA
CANYON CINEMA’S VILLAGE OF
VISIONARIES (shorts
program)
Dream Works (for Man
Ray), Peter
Tscherkassky USA
Cet Amour-Là, Josée Dayan France
A Conversation with Haris, Sheila Sofian (short) USA
Cowhide, Gerald Hustache-Mathieu (short) France
Daughter from Danang, Gail Dolgin, Vincente Franco USA
Face, Bertha Bay-Sa Pan USA
Fatma, Khaled Ghorbal Tunisia
The Green Cold, Nasser Saffarian Iran
Inch’ Allah Sunday, Yamina Benguigui France
The Journey to
Kafiristan, Fosco
& Donatello Dubini Switzerland
July Rhapsody, Ann Hui Hong Kong
Kissed by Angels, Daniela Zanzotto England
La Spagnola, Steve Jacobs Australia
Me Without You, Sandra Goldbacher
UK
(more)
The Milk of Human Kindness, Dominique Cabréra France
The Mirror of the Soul, Nasser Saffarian (short) Iran
Now, Look at Me, Brigitte Staermose Denmark
Orange Juice and
Knitting Needles,
Erica Peng (short) USA
Rain, Christine Jeffs New
Zealand
THEY CAME FROM THE BAY (shorts program)
Lucy Tsak Tsak,
Andrey Paounov Bulgaria
Secret Ballot, Babak Payami Iran
Sisters, Sergei Bodrov Jr. Russia
Vivante, Sandrine Ray France
Where Are My Children?, Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley USA
25 Watts, Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll Uruguay
All About Lily Chou Chou, Shunji Iwai Japan
Delbaran, Abolfazl Jalilli Iran
Dogtown and Z-Boys, Stacy Peralta USA
El Bola, Achero Mañas Spain
Go, Isao Yukisada Japan
Hell House, George Ratliff USA
IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL (shorts program)
A Man of Substance, Jana Sinyor Canada
Birju, Heeraz Marfatia USA
Delivery Day, Jane Manning Australia
No, Dragos Bogdan Luga Romania
Olivia’s Puzzle, Jason DaSilva
Canada
Ow!, Jill Norton USA
The Day I Decided to
be Nina, Ingeborg
Jansen The Netherlands
La Spagnola, Steve Jacobs Australia
Me Without You, Sandra Goldbacher
UK
SHORTS IN A FEATURE LENGTH WORLD (shorts program)
Now, Look at Me, Brigitte Staermose Denmark
Somewhere on Earth, Kiseki Hamada Japan
Streeters, Gerardo Tort Mexico
Superchunk and Kinugasa: A Page of Madness, Teinosuke Kinugasa Japan
The Wild Bees, Bohdan Sláma Czech Republic
Truly Human, Ake Sandgren Denmark
YOUTH OR CONSEQUENCES (shorts program)
As if it Matters, TILT, LYRIC and GSA Network USA
Dil Se: From the Heart, Rubin Polizzi India
Everyday Eastlake, Reel Peeps Video Youth USA
Lachrymose, Moses Venegas USA
Life in the Española
Valley: Fingerboards,
Students of Española Valley High School USA
The
45th San Francisco International Film Festival is presented by the
San Francisco Film Society, a nonprofit arts organization whose goal is to lead
in expanding the knowledge and appreciation of international film art and its
artists by showcasing the most compelling, thought-provoking international
films, special tributes and major restorations, and today’s brightest stars.
The
45th San Francisco International Film Festival runs April 18–May 2, 2002 at the
AMC Kabuki 8 Theatres, the Castro Theatre, the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley
and Landmark’s Park Theatre in Menlo Park. Advance ticket packages and Festival
passes go on sale beginning March 6. Individual tickets for San Francisco Film
Society members will be available beginning March 27, with individual tickets
for the general public available starting April 2. To purchase tickets and for
ticket information call 925.275.9490 or log on to sffs.org. The Main Box
Office, located in the atrium of the AMC Kabuki 8 Theatres at 1881 Post Street
will open for Film Society members on March 27 and for the general public on
April 2. There will also be a Satellite Box Office at Crocker Galleria, 50 Post
Street, second floor, opening on April 2. For up-to-date Festival information,
call 415.931.FILM.