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| SF Internaional Film Festival. Photo: Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society |
The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival returns April 21 - May 5 for two weeks of cinematic excellence, combining more than 100 unique programs of the finest independent, documentary and international film with a range of marquee premieres, spectacular live events and tributes to world-renowned talent. It brings the best in world cinema to the Bay Area and presents the following Dutch film:
A Cat in Paris is a movie for children of all ages, who will root for the undercats in this beautifully animated caper set against the cityscape of Paris. A sneaky feline, a mute girl, her police detective mom and a big-hearted cat burglar join forces to combat a gangster and his bumbling sidekicks. With short Specky Four Eyes (9 min). A Cat in Paris screenings:
Sunday, April 24, 2011 at 12:30 PM
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Sunday, May 1, 2011 at12:30 PM
New People - San Francisco, CA
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| A Cat in Paris movie still. Photo: Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society |
In The Ligh Thief, a simple electrician affectionately known as Mr. Light finds himself in a difficult position when a politician embraces his dream of generating wind energy for his impoverished town. This stirring allegory of a man confronting injustice and tyranny dramatizes the challenges facing the developing economies of post-Soviet Central Asia. The Light Thief screenings:
Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 7:15 PM
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Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 8:45 PM
Pacific Film Archive - Bekeley, CA
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| The Light Thief movie still. Photo: Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society |
Position Among the Stars is winner of the IDFA 2010 Awards for Best Feature-length Documentary and Best Dutch Documentary.
In the latest chapter in Helmrich’s (Shape of the Moon, SFIFF 2005) artful portrait of a Jakarta family, the grandmother journeys from the countryside to motivate her university-bound granddaughter. The domestic drama takes place amid increasing materialism and traditional Islam, while Helmrich’s virtuoso style transforms the everyday into art. Position Among the Stars screenings:
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 8:50 PMPacific Film Archive - Bekeley, CA
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 6:00 PM
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas - San Francisco, CA
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 9:00 PM
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas - San Francisco, CA
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| Position Among the Stars movie still. Photo: Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society |
My Joy is about a taciturn truck driver who hits the pitted asphalt road for a journey into rural Russia and encounters with peculiar folk—an old man still plagued by the Great War, a teenage prostitute who shuns kindness, a trio of tramps who wander the wasteland like an unholy trinity—in this surprising guignol about a republic in decline. My Joy screenings:
Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 5:45 PM
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| My Joy movie still. Photo: Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society |
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