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Special Interests: 47th San Francisco International Film Festival

African

Chouchou

France

The Forest

Cameroon/Gabon/Central African Republic

James’ Journey to Jerusalem

Israel

 

 

African American

BAADASSSSS!

USA

Brother to Brother

USA

Bus 24: The Diversity Bus (short)

USA

Chisholm ’72 – Unbought & Unbossed

USA

Everyday People

USA

Girl Trouble

USA

Home of the Brave

USA

The Hot 8 (short)

USA

Strictly Family: Changing the Definition (short)

USA

 

 

Animals

The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear

Denmark/France

Cirkustour (short)

Denmark

Origin of the World (short)

Slovakia

The Story of the Weeping Camel

Mongolia

TechnoPenguin (short)

USA

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

USA

A Work in Progress (short)

USA

 

 

Animation

The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear

Denmark/France

Cirkustour (short)

Denmark

Dad’s Dead (short)

UK

The Happy Three Family (short)

Belgium

The Match (short)

Italy

Origin of the World (short)

Slovakia

Sky Blue

South Korea/USA

 

Tarzan (short)

Germany

TechnoPenguin (short)

USA

The Way (short)

South Korea

The Werewolf (short)

USA

A Work in Progress (short)

USA

 

 

Art/Design

POPaganda: The Art & Subversion of Ron English (short)

USA

A Work in Progress (short)

USA

 

 

Asian

Beautiful Boxer

Thailand

Burning Dreams

Taiwan

Chinese Dream (short)

USA

Disa Moves to Japan (short)

Norway

Doppelganger

Japan

Get Up!

Japan

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Taiwan

Helena: Helen’s Journey Through Mexico (short)

USA

Hic! (short)

USA

Last Life in the Universe

Thailand

Manhole

China

Marronnier

Japan

Memories of Murder

South Korea

The Missing

Taiwan

The Park

Hong Kong

Save the Green Planet!

South Korea

Someone else’s Shinjuku east

Taiwan

Temptress of a Thousand Faces

Hong Kong/Korea

Then and Now

The Philippines

Vibrator

Japan

The Way (short)

South Korea

 

 

Australian/New Zealand

The Ball (short)

Australia

Clutch (short)

Australia

Haunting Douglas

New Zealand

So Close To Home

Australia

 

 

Baby Boomer (over 40)

Chisholm ’72 – Unbought & Unbossed

USA

Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb

USA

Feelings

France

Festival Express

Canada

Hair

USA

Home of the Brave

USA

Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army

USA/UK

Taking Off

USA

 

Brazilian

Carandiru

Brazil

God is Brazilian

Brazil

The Man Who Copied

Brazil

Master, A Building in Copacabana

Brazil

The Middle of the World

Brazil

 

 

British

Bad Behaviour

UK

Dad’s Dead (short)

UK

The Mother

UK

This Little Life

UK

 

 

Canadian

The Corporation

Canada

Festival Express

Canada

Phone Cycle (short)

Canada

The Saddest Music in the World

Canada

 

 

Celebrities

BAADASSSSS!

USA

Coffee and Cigarettes

USA

Double Dare

USA

Hair

USA

Laws of Attraction

USA

Matewan

USA

Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army

USA/UK

Silk Stockings

USA

We Loved Each Other So Much

The Netherlands

 

 

Chinese

Burning Dreams

Taiwan

Chinese Dream (short)

USA

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Taiwan

Manhole

China

The Park

Hong Kong

Someone else’s Shinjuku east

Taiwan

Temptress of a Thousand Faces

Hong Kong/Korea

 

 

Comedy

After You

France

The Ball (short)

Australia

Chouchou

France

Cleopatra

Argentina/Spain

Coffee and Cigarettes

USA

Colorforms (short)

USA

Dogs in the Basement

USA

Feelings

France

 

The Firemen’s Ball

Czechoslovakia

Gate to Heaven

Germany

Get Up!

Japan

God is Brazilian

Brazil

The Green Butchers

Denmark

Hic! (short)

USA

James' Journey to Jerusalem

Israel

Laws of Attraction

USA

Love Me If You Dare

France

Loving Glances

Serbia/Montenegro

Magic Gloves

Argentina

The Man Who Copied

Brazil

Mon Idole

France

Raghu Romeo

India

Save the Green Planet!

South Korea

Schultze Gets the Blues

Germany

Some Secrets

Czech Republic/Slovakia

Taking Off

USA

Tarzan (short)

Germany

That Day

Switzerland/France

Urban Frankenstein (short)

USA

 

 

Cuban

Dame la Mano

The Netherlands

The Five Obstructions

Denmark

Suite Habana

Spain/Cuba

 

 

Cultural Diversity

Bus 24: The Diversity Bus (short)

USA

Four Short Films About Love (short)

USA

Gate to Heaven

Germany

Helena: Helen’s Journey Through Mexico (short)

USA

Hic! (short)

USA

James’ Journey to Jerusalem

Israel

Loving Glances

Serbia/Montenegro

So Close to Home

Australia

Strictly Family: Changing the Definition (short)

USA

 

 

Dance/Theater

Burning Dreams

Taiwan

Dame la Mano

The Netherlands

A Diary from the Next World

Russia

Hair

USA

Haunting Douglas

New Zealand

The King of the Tango (short)

USA

Schultze Gets the Blues

Germany

Silk Stockings

USA

You Define Single File (short)

USA

 

Disability

Bad Behaviour

UK

A Life to Live (short)

Poland

Squint Your Eyes

Poland

 

 

Eastern European

The Firemen’s Ball

Czechoslovakia

A Life to Live (short)

Poland

Loving Glances

Serbia/Montenegro

Origin of the World (short)

Slovakia

Some Secrets

Czech Republic/Slovakia

 

 

Experimental/Avant-Garde

Back to Kotelnich

France

BRINGING  TO LIGHT (shorts program)

 

          Concerning Flight: Five Illuminations in Miniature

USA

          Glow in the Dark (january-june)

USA

          I Began to Wish...

USA

          Light is Calling

USA

          Loretta

USA

          Metaphysical Education

USA

          Observations at Gettysburg, 6 July 2002

USA

          Passage

USA

          The Waves

USA

          What Goes Up

USA

Café 1996 (short)

USA

The Five Obstructions

Denmark

Lockers (short)

USA

MOTION STUDIES  (shorts program)

 

          The Greater Vehicle

USA

          The Happy Three Family

Belgium

          imAgo

Greece

          It’s Not My Memory of It: Three Recollected Documents (short)

USA

          Martin

USA

          Not Too Much Remember

USA

          Papa Blue

Taiwan/USA

          Papillon d’amour

Belgium

          You Define Single File

USA

Reconstruction

Denmark

The Very Best Day (short)

Russia

 

 

Family-Friendly

The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear

Denmark/France

CIRCUS CINEMATICUS (shorts program)

 

          Cirkustour

Denmark

          Disa Moves to Japan

Norway

          Hic!

USA

 

          Strictly Family: Changing the Definition

USA

          Sunday Paper p.2b

USA

          Tarzan

Germany

          A Work in Progress

USA

Double Dare

USA

The General

USA

Super Size Me

USA

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

USA

 

 

 

Family Issues

Absent Fathers (short)

USA

B-Happy

Chile/Spain/Venezuela

Bad Behaviour

UK

Baked Together (short)

Germany

Clutch (short)

Australia

Everyday People

USA

The Forest

Cameroon/Gabon/Central AfricanRepublic

Four Short Films About Love (short)

USA

The Handcuff King

Finland/Sweden

Home of the Brave

USA

Koktebel

Russia

The Middle of the World

Brazil

The Miracle of Bern

Germany

The Missing

Taiwan

The Mother

UK

My Mother's Motorbike (short)

Switzerland

Papa Blue (short)

Taiwan/USA

Silent Waters

Pakistan/France/Germany

Since Otar Left

France/Georgia

Some Secrets

Czech Republic/Slovakia

The Story of the Weeping Camel

Mongolia

Strictly Family: Changing the Definition (short)

USA

Then and Now

The Philippines

Vodka Lemon

France/Armenia/Italy/Switzerland

 

 

French

After You

France

Back to Kotelnich

France

Chouchou

France

Dans La Nuit

France

L’Esquive

France

Feelings

France

The Happy Three Family (short)

Belgium

In the Company of Men

France

Investigation into the Invisible World

France

Life and Death of a Boring Moment (short)

France

Love Me If You Dare

France

(more)

Mon Idole

France

My Mother’s Motorbike (short)

Switzerland

Papillon d’amour (short)

Belgium

Since Otar Left

France/Georgia

South of the Clouds

Switzerland/France

That Day

Switzerland/France

Triple Agent

France

 

 

German

Baked Together (short)

Germany

Fragile (short)

Germany

Gate to Heaven

Germany

The Miracle of Bern

Germany

Schultze Gets the Blues

Germany

Tarzan (short)

Germany

 

 

Health/Athletics

The Ball (short)

Australia

Beautiful Boxer

Thailand

Double Dare

USA

The Miracle of Bern

Germany

Super Size Me

USA

 

 

Indian

The Five Obstructions

Denmark

Raghu Romeo

India

Silent Waters

Pakistan/France/Germany

When the Storm Came (short)

USA/India

 

 

Italian

El Alamein: The Line of Fire

Italy

Fedora (short)

Italy

The Match (short)

Italy

Three Step Dancing

Italy

 

 

Japanese

Disa Moves to Japan (short)

Norway

Doppelganger

Japan

Get Up!

Japan

Marronnier

Japan

Papillon d’amour (short)

Belgium

Someone else’s Shinjuku east

Taiwan

Vibrator

Japan

 

 

Jewish/Israeli

Checkpoint

Israel

Everyday People

USA

Four Short Films About Love (short)

USA

(over)

In Satmar Custody

Israel

James’ Journey to Jerusalem

Israel

Route 181 – Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel

France/Belgium/Germany/UK

 

 

Korean

Memories of Murder

South Korea

Save the Green Planet!

South Korea

Sky Blue

South Korea/USA

Temptress of a Thousand Faces

Hong Kong/Korea

The Way (short)

South Korea

 

 

 

Latino/Latin American

Absent Fathers (short)

USA

Ana and the Others

Argentina

B-Happy

Chile/Spain/Venezuela

Bus 24: The Diversity Bus   (short)

USA

Carandiru

Brazil

Cleopatra

Argentina/Spain

God is Brazilian

Brazil

Helena: Helen’s Journey Through Mexico (short)

USA

Magic Gloves

Argentina

The Man Who Copied

Brazil

Master, A Building in Copacabana

Brazil

The Middle of the World

Brazil

The Newcomers

Chile

The Sixth Section (short)

USA/Mexico

Strictly Family: Changing the Definition (short)

USA

What the Eye Doesn’t See

Peru

 

 

Literature

Brother to Brother

USA

Carandiru

Brazil

God is Brazilian

Brazil

 

 

Local Interest/Filmmakers

BAADASSSSS!

USA

Bus 24: The Diversity Bus (short)

USA

Café 1996 (short)

USA

Chisholm ’72 – Unbought & Unbossed

USA

Crystal Harvest (short)

USA

DIG!

USA

Double Dare

USA

Festival Express

Canada

Four Short Films About Love (short)

USA

Girl Trouble

USA

The Greater Vehicle (short)

USA

(more)

Lockers (short)

USA

Loving Glances

Serbia/Montenegro

Martin (short)

USA/New Zealand

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

USA

Metaphysical Education (short)

USA

Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army

USA/UK

Old Glory (short)

USA

Passage (short)

USA

Silk Stockings

USA

Sunday Paper p.2b (short)

USA

TechnoPenguin (short)

USA

Urban Frankenstein (short)

USA

The Waves (short)

USA

When the Storm Came (short)

USA/India

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

USA

 

 

Love

After You

France

Baked Together (short)

Germany

Brother to Brother

USA

Chouchou

France

Dans La Nuit

France

Dogs in the Basement

USA

Feelings

France

The Forest

Cameroon/Gabon/Central African Republic

Four Short Films About Love (short)

USA

Gate to Heaven

Germany

The General

USA

Hair

USA

Laws of Attraction

USA

Love Me If You Dare

France

Loving Glances

Serbia/Montenegro

The Man Who Copied

Brazil

The Newcomers

Chile

Papillon d’amour (short)

Belgium

Raghu Romeo

India

Reconstruction

Denmark

Sky Blue

South Korea/USA

Vibrator

Japan

Vodka Lemon

France/Armenia/Italy/Switzerland

The Werewolf (short)

USA

 

 

Male Perspective

Absent Fathers (short)

USA

Brother to Brother

USA

Carandiru

Brazil

Deep Breath

Iran

El Alamein: The Line of Fire

Italy

(over)

Inheritance

Denmark

Martin (short)

USA

Schultze Gets the Blues

Germany

South of the Clouds

Switzerland/France

 

 

Middle Eastern

The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan

UK/Afghanistan

Checkpoint

Israel

Control Room

USA/Egypt

Deep Breath

Iran

James’ Journey to Jerusalem

Israel

Route 181 – Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel

France/Belgium/UK

Silent Waters

Pakistan/France/Germany

So Close To Home

Australia

 

 

Music

BAADASSSSS!

USA

Brass Tacks

USA

Brother to Brother

USA

Coffee and Cigarettes

USA

Dame la Mano

The Netherlands

Dans La Nuit

France

DIG!

USA

Everyday People

USA

Feelings

France

Festival Express

Canada

The General

USA

Get Up!

Japan

Hair

USA

imAgo (short)

Greece

The Hot 8 (short)

USA

The King of the Tango (short)

USA

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

USA

The Saddest Music in the World

Canada

Schultze Gets the Blues

Germany

Silk Stockings

USA

The Very Best Day (short)

Russia

We Loved Each Other So Much

The Netherlands

 

 

Palestinian

Checkpoint

Israel

Control Room

USA/Egypt

James' Journey to Jerusalem

Israel

Route 181 – Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel

France/Belgium/Germany/UK

We Loved Each Other So Much

The Netherlands

 

 

Politics/History

The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan

UK/Afghanistan

(more)

Café 1996 (short)

USA

Checkpoint

Israel

Chisholm ’72 – Unbought & Unbossed

USA

Control Room

USA/Egypt

The Corporation

Canada

A Diary from the Next World (short)

Russia

El Alamein: The Line of Fire

Italy

The General

USA

Home of the Brave

USA

In Satmar Custody

Israel

It’s Not My Memory of It: Three Recollected Documents (short)

USA

Memories of Murder

South Korea

The Miracle of Bern

Germany

Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army

USA/UK

Old Glory (short)

USA

Papa Blue (short)

USA/Taiwan

Route 181 – Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel

France/Belgium/Germany/UK

Silent Waters

Pakistan/France/Germany

The Sixth Section (short)

USA/Mexico

Triple Agent

France

Vodka Lemon

France/Armenia/Italy/Switzerland

We Loved Each Other So Much

The Netherlands

When the Storm Came (short)

USA/India

 

 

Queer

Beautiful Boxer

Thailand

Brother to Brother

USA

Carandiru

Brazil

Chouchou

France

The Happy Three Family (short)

Belgium

Haunting Douglas

New Zealand

Martin (short)

USA

 

 

Russian/Former Soviet Republics

Back to Kotelnich

France

A Diary from the Next World (short)

Russia

Hare-Hunting (short)

Russia

Koktebel

Russia

Silk Stockings

USA

Since Otar Left

France/Georgia

The Very Best Day

Russia

Vodka Lemon

France/Armenia/Italy/Switzerland

 

 

Scandinavian

The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear

Denmark/France

Cirkustour (short)

Denmark

Disa Moves to Japan(short)

Norway

The Five Obstructions

Denmark

(over)

The Green Butchers

Denmark

The Handcuff King

Finland/Sweden

Inheritance

Denmark

Reconstruction

Denmark

 

 

Science/Nature

The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear

Denmark/France

The Corporation

Canada

Sky Blue

South Korea/USA

The Story of the Weeping Camel

Mongolia

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

USA

 

 

Seniors

Baked Together (short)

Germany

Cleopatra

Argentina/Spain

Lot(short)

The Netherlands

The Mother

UK

Schultze Gets the Blues

Germany

Since Otar Left

France/Georgia

South of the Clouds

Switzerland/France

Sunday Paper p.2b (short)

USA

 

 

Sexuality

Brother to Brother

USA

Dogs in the Basement

USA

Feelings

France

The Happy Three Family (short)

Belgium

The Mother

UK

The Newcomers

Chile

Someone else’s Shinjuku east

Taiwan

Vibrator

Japan

 

 

Taiwanese

Burning Dreams

Taiwan

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Taiwan

The Missing

Taiwan

Papa Blue (short)

USA/Taiwan

Someone else’s Shinjuku east

Taiwan

 

 

Technology/Multimedia/Mass Media

Control Room

USA/Egypt

The Corporation

Canada

Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army

USA/UK

POPaganda: The Art & Subversion of Ron English (short)

USA

Raghu Romeo

India

Sky Blue

South Korea/USA

 

 

 

Thai

Beautiful Boxer

Thailand

Last Life in the Universe

Thailand

 

 

Women

Ana and the Others

Argentina

Chisholm ’72 – Unbought & Unbossed

USA

Cleopatra

Argentina/Spain

Double Dare

USA

Girl Trouble

USA

The Happy Three Family (short)

Belgium

Home of the Brave

USA

Lot (short)

The Netherlands

The Mother

UK

My Mother’s Motorbike (short)

Switzerland

Savior (short)

Iceland

Silent Waters

Pakistan/France/Germany

Since Otar Left

France/Georgia

So Close to Home

Australia

Then and Now

The Philippines

This Little Life

UK

We Loved Each Other So Much

The Netherlands

When the Storm Came (short)

USA/India

 

 

 

Women Directors

Ana and the Others

Argentina

Bad Behaviour

UK

Baked Together (short)

Germany

The Ball (short)

Australia

Café 1996 (short)

USA

Chisholm ’72 – Unbought & Unbossed

USA

Clutch (short)

Australia

Colorforms (short)

USA

Concerning Flight: Five Illuminations in Miniature (short)

USA

Control Room

USA/Egypt

Crystal Harvest (short)

USA

Dame la Mano

The Netherlands

A Diary from the Next World (short)

Russia

DIG!

USA

Dogs in the Basement

USA

Double Dare

USA

Feelings

France

Girl Trouble

USA

The Happy Three Family (short)

Belgium

Haunting Douglas

New Zealand

Helena: Helen’s Journey Through Mexico (short)

USA

Home of the Brave

USA

 

I Began to Wish... (short)

USA

It’s Not My Memory of It: Three Recollected Documents (short)

USA

The King of the Tango (short)

USA

Lockers (short)

USA

Lot (short)

The Netherlands

The Man in the Cupboard (short)

The Netherlands

My Mother’s Motorbike (short)

Switzerland

Savior (short)

Iceland

Silent Waters

Pakistan/France/Germany

Since Otar Left

France/Georgia

So Close to Home

Australia

Some Secrets

Czech Republic/Slovakia

The Story of the Weeping Camel

Mongolia

Then and Now

The Philippines

This Little Life

UK

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

USA

When the Storm Came (short)

USA/India

 

 

Youth-Appropriate

The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan

UK/Afghanistan

Chisholm ’72 – Unbought & Unbossed

USA

Double Dare

USA

L’Esquive

France

Everyday People

USA

Girl Trouble

USA

The Handcuff King

Finland/Sweden

Home of the Brave

USA

The Hot 8 (short)

USA

James’ Journey to Jerusalem

Israel

Koktebel

Russia

The Miracle of Bern

Germany

My Mother's Motorbike (short)

Switzerland

Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army

USA/UK

The Other America

USA

Savior (short)

Iceland

Super Size Me

USA

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

USA

YOUTH BE TOLD (shorts program)

 

          Absent Fathers

USA

          Bus 24: The Diversity Bus

USA

          Four Short Films About Love

USA

         Helena Helen’s Journey Through Mexico

USA

          Lockers

USA

          Phone Cycle

Canada

          Strictly Family: Changing the Definition

USA

          TechnoPenguin

USA

          Urban Frankenstein

USA

          The Werewolf

USA

 

Youth Issues

Absent Fathers (short)

USA

B-Happy

Chile/Spain/Venezuela

The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan

UK/Afghanistan

Bugs (short)

Macedonia

Bus 24: The Diversity Bus (short)

USA

Chinese Dream (short)

USA

L’Esquive

France

Everyday People

USA

Four Short Films About Love (short)

USA

Girl Trouble

USA

The Handcuff King

Finland/Sweden

Hare-Hunting (short)

Russia

Helena: Helen’s Journey Through Mexico (short)

USA

The Hot 8 (short)

USA

The King of the Tango (short)

USA

Koktebel

Russia

A Life to Live (short)

Poland

Lockers (short)

USA

Lot (short)

The Netherlands

The Middle of the World

Brazil

My Mother's Motorbike (short)

Switzerland

The Other America

USA

Phone Cycle (short)

Canada

Savior (short)

Iceland

So Close to Home

Australia

Squint Your Eyes

Poland

Strictly Family: Changing the Definition (short)

USA

Super Size Me

USA

Taking Off

USA

Urban Frankenstein (short)

USA

The 47th San Francisco International Film Festival runs April 15-29, 2004 at the AMC Kabuki 8 Theatres "The Home of the Festival," the Castro Theatre, the Pacific Film Archive Theater in Berkeley and the Century Cinema 16 Mountain View. Tickets for San Francisco Film Society members will be available on March 23 and for the general public on March 30. To purchase tickets and for ticket information log on to www.sffs.org, call 925.275.9490, or visit the Main Box Office, located in the atrium of the AMC Kabuki 8 Theatres at 1881 Post Street or the Satellite Box Office at Crocker Galleria, 50 Post Street, second floor, opening on March 30. For up-to-date Festival information log on to www.sffs.org or call 415.931.FILM.

The 47th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 15-29, 2004) is presented by the San Francisco Film Society, a nonprofit arts and educational organization dedicated to celebrating international film and the moving image.

 
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