60Th San Francisco International Film Festival APRIL 5-19, 2017 Sff Ilm.Org Put the Festival in Your Pocket

60th San Francisco International Film Festival APRIL 5-19, 2017 sff ilm.org Put the Festival in Your Pocket.

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Welcome to the 60th edition of the San Francisco fear for the most vulnerable within our Bay Area International Film Festival! We have been planning to community and anticipate new attacks on the spirit celebrate this birthday party with the city and region and values of our city and region. 3 we call home for a while now and cannot wait to share it with our Bay Area friends and guests from The value of film culture rests in large part on the around the world. Many different kinds of films and multiple ways audiences around the world interact film events, new and old, will contribute to this rich with the medium. Whether films provide simple and varied festival experience. Look out for a series escapist delight or invigorating messages of social of high-profile tributes, a greatly enhanced music and change, the artists who make this work open our eyes film schedule, new programs involving the technology and minds to other ways of seeing the world and the world, and special screenings that connect global vast network of threads that bind us together. thought leaders with films and filmmakers exploring the key issues facing us today. For our part, we stand as allies to those who resist attacks on this shared purpose and seek to encourage We are presenting all of this work in a newly compressed the making and presentation of cinema that seeks a schedule, with a first weekend of parties, special events, better world for generations to come. and major new films, followed by a week of international and Bay Area cinema mixed in with our signature blend I encourage you all to use the opportunity of the of cross-media explorations, culminating in our 60th 60th San Francisco International Film Festival to anniversary commission, Guy Maddin, Jacob Garchik, lean on the impressive filmmakers represented in and Kronos Quartet’s special collaborative project these pages and their work. Let them help provide PHOTO BY TOMMY LAU BY TOMMY PHOTO The Green Fog – A San Francisco Fantasia. comfort, new challenges, and inspiration in these dizzying times. You will also see us launch a complete overhaul of our look and feel as an institution. Our new name, See you at the movies! SFFILM, speaks to how integrated we feel within the community that supports us and enjoys our offerings.

While film festivals must foremost be a celebration of our ever-surprising and inspiring art form, this year we are touched by and must acknowledge the unsettling course of current events. Like many others, we have been dismayed by restrictions on the freedom of artists to travel and the denigration of Noah Cowan national arts funding structures that have delivered Executive Director so much good to so many communities. We also SFFILM

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Welcome 3 After Life • 49 American Paradise • 48 Title Index 5 4 And the Whole Sky Fit in the Attending the Festival 6 Dead Cow’s Eye • 48 Bad mama, who cares • 51 Festival Map 7 Bagatelle II • 11 Big Nights 8 Balloonfest • 48 Beach Rats 25 Live & Onstage 11 Bending the Arc 31 Awards & Tributes 13 Bill Nye: Science Guy 25 Birdman • 49 Special Events 17 Birth of a Nation • 51 Master Classes 21 Bloopers • 49 Boombox Collection: Zion I, The • 20 Born in China 31 FILMS Brainwash • 49 Masters 22 Break of Day • 48 Brief History of Princess X, A • 48 Marquee Presentations 25 Brimstone & Glory 45 Global Visions 31 Broken – The Women’s Prison at Hoheneck • 48 Schedule 34 Brown Penny • 49 Golden Gate Award Competitions 42 Bury Me Not • 51 Buster’s Mal Heart 26 Vanguard 50 By the Time It Gets Dark 50 Dark Wave 52 Cage Fighter, The 45 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE California Dreams 32 Can You Read My Lips? • 18 Spotlight & Initiatives 54 Casting JonBenet 26 Challenge, The 46 Fine Art & the Festival 56 Chasing Coral 26 SFFILM Education 58 Cinema Travellers, The 46 Citizen Kane 17 SFFILM Artist Development 59 City of Ghosts 26 Filmmaker Index 60 Convention, The • 48 Cycle • 49 Country Index 61 Date for Mad Mary, A 32 Sponsors 62 Death of Louis XIV, The 50 Defender 20 60th Anniversary Circle 64 Discreet 32 SFFILM Supporters 64 Dolores 27 Donkeyote 46 Membership 66 Dragon Arrives!, A 32 Duet 43 El Mar La Mar 51

SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT Edge of Alchemy • 48 Endless Poetry 22 Everything • 48 Everything Else 43 Fajr • 46 Long Excuse, The 38 Score: A Film Music Documentary 41 Family Life 33 Long Happy Life, A 13 Scrap Dolls • 49 Father and Daughter • 49 Long Strange Trip 28 Second to None • 48 5 First Breath • 49 Lost City of Z, The 29 See a Dog, Hear a Dog • 51 Flowers of the Sky • 51 Lou • 49 Serenade for Haiti 47 Force, The 46 Ma’ Rosa 22 78/52 53 Future Perfect, The 33 Mad World 38 Sieranevada 23 Godless 43 Malaria • 18 Solo Piano, NYC • 18 God’s Own Country 43 Maliglutit (Searchers) 39 Space Balloon • 18 Golden Exits 27 Man with a Movie Camera, The 12 STEP 29 Great Blondino, The 18 Marginalia • 11 Stopover, The 41 Green Fog, The – Marie Curie. The Courage Story of a 3-Day Pass 23 A San Francisco Fantasia 10 of Knowledge 39 Student, The 41 Guerrilla 15 Marjorie Prime 29 Summer Camp Island • 48, 49 Gut Hack • 48 Maudie 13 Surprise Secret Screening 30 Half-Life in Fukushima 47 Maurice 16 Tania Libre 14 Happy Birthday Mario Woods • 48 Meaningless Conversations in There Is Land! • 49 Headshot 52 Beautiful Environments • 48 This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous 24 Heal the Living 33 Missing Part of Me, The • 49 Throws • 18 Heaven Sent 44 Mister Universo 39 THX 1138 (Director’s Cut) 11

Hermia & Helena 33 Motherland 40 Transfiguration, The 53 TITLE INDEX Hero, The 27 Mrs K 52 Turtles Are Always Home • 49 History of Magic, The: Ensueño• 48 Muhi – Generally Temporary 47 Une bonne à tout faire • 13 Hot Dog Hands • 48 My Name Is Khan 16 Univitellin • 48 Hotel Salvation 38 N.O.VI.S. • 49 Unknown Girl, The 24 House of Tomorrow, The 44 Nails, The • 18 Untamed, The 41

How You Doin, Boy? Voicemails Next Skin, The 40 Untitled, 1925 Part Three • 51 From Gran’pa • 18 Nobody Speak: Trials of Valentina • 47 Human Surge, The 44 the Free Press 29 Valley of a Thousand Hills • 49 I Called Him Morgan 38 Nocturama 23 Vertigo 21 TICKETS A If I Were Any Further Away One Year Lease • 18 Victor & Isolina • 48 I’d Be Closer to Home • 49 Ornithologist, The 23 Walking Out 30 Illumination, The • 15 Orson Whales • 18 Watershow Extravaganza, The • 49 I Love Dick 17 Paris Can Wait 14 Wedding Plan, The 42 Incredible Jessica James, The 27 Paris Opera, The 40 Wedding Ring, The 45 T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL Infinity Baby 28 Park 45 What Do We Have in Our Pockets • 18 In Loco Parentis 47 Patti Cake$ 9 Whose Streets? 20 Inspector and the Umbrella, The • 49 Pearl • 49 Winter, The 42 In the Wake of Ghost Ship • 48 People You May Know 40 Words of Mercury • 11 Introducing Fortune Perched • 49 World Without End Cookies To China • 18 personne • 51 (No Reported Incidents) 51 It Is What It Is • 49 Rabbit Hunt, The • 48 Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl 18 Journey, The 28 Rapid Transit • 49 You Got Eyes • 51 Kindah • 49 Real Artists • 48 Yourself and Yours 24 Lady Macbeth 28 Red Apples • 48 Landline 8 Rivers and Tides - Andy Goldsworthy Leaning Into the Wind – Working with Time 20 Andy Goldsworthy 22 Russian Roulette • 18 Life After Life 44 Scared Very Scared • 32 • Short film attending the festival

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6 REGULAR PROGRAMS CINEVOUCHER 10-PACK Purchase online: sffilm.org/festival SFFILM member $13 $120 member / $140 general public The Festival Box Office is available for order General admission $15 support over the phone Mondays–Fridays Senior/student/ADA $14 A CineVoucher 10-Pack is the most flexible between 11:00 am–5:00 pm, March 16–31. Children (12 and under) $8* way to see Festival films at a discount. These digital 10-Packs can be redeemed for up to Box Office phone: 415-561-5006 *Select programs ten regularly priced, non-rush screenings online or in person at select Festival venues. During the Festival, tickets are also available Ticket prices for Big Nights, Live & Onstage, CineVouchers are valid for one year from for purchase at our venues. See the opposite Award, and other special programs may vary. purchase date and may also be used at page for locations and Box Office hours. If you require wheelchair seating, notify the designated year-round programs. box office when placing an order. Valid ID POLICIES required to receive discounts. CINEVISA $1500 member / $1675 general public* Ticket and pass holders must arrive 15 RUSH TICKETS minutes prior to show time to guarantee A CineVisa is the ultimate way to experience admission. Ticket or pass holders arriving Last-minute tickets—known as rush tickets— every moment of the San Francisco less than 15 minutes prior to showtime may become available for purchase just International Film Festival. CineVisas grant cannot be guaranteed a seat, even with a before showtime when advance tickets have admission to every public Festival film, party, ticket or a pass. All sales are final. No refunds sold out. A rush line will form outside the and program with certain noted exceptions. or exchanges will be given to ticket or pass venue usually one hour before showtime. Flash your CineVisa to access the Priority holders turned away after this time. Approximately ten minutes prior to the Seating line, which allows early admittance to screening, empty seats are counted and will every show. All orders are final. No refunds, exchanges, ATTENDING THE FESTIVAL ATTENDING be sold on a first-come, first-served basis to substitutions or replacements will be issued. those in line. Rush tickets will only be sold *Limited quantities available; All delivery-by-mail orders will be charged to those actually waiting in line at the time includes $175 membership a $3.00 fee per mailed order. No tickets will of sale. Rush tickets are not available at the be mailed until March 25. No tickets will be BAMPFA. mailed after March 30. Members must have a valid SFFILM For complete ticket information and policies, membership card in hand to receive a visit sffilm.org. discount in the rush line. Please be advised that not all shows at rush will have tickets released.

NOON TICKET RELEASE

Each day of the Festival, tickets may be released for that day’s rush screenings. Pending availability, tickets may be purchased online or in person at the Festival Box Office starting at noon. Not all shows will have SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT tickets released, and purchasing is first- come, first-served. festival map

This map includes all SFFILM Festival screening venues. Locations marked with stars bampfa (R) also house Festival Box Offices. 2155 Center Street, Berkeley 7 The main Festival Box Office is located in the YBCA Grand Lobby. All other Box Office (between Shattuck and Oxford Streets) locations open one hour before the first Festival screening of the day. One block from Downtown Berkeley BART

R vogue theatre castro theatre R proxy ybca 3290 Sacramento Street 429 Castro Street 1432 Octavia Street 701 Mission Street (between Presidio Avenue (between Market and (between Hayes and (between 3rd and 4th Streets) and Lyon Street) 18th Street) Linden Streets) main box office YBCA Grand Lobby Open daily Thursday, April 6–Sunday, walt disney dolby cinema April 16 from 12:00–8:00 pm family museum @ 1275 market 104 Montgomery Street 1275 Market Street R FESTIVAL MAP (near Lincoln Boulevard) (between 8th and sfmoma 9th Streets) Phyllis Wattis Theater Joyce and Larry Stupski Entrance on Minna Street (between 3rd and New Montgomery Streets)

R roxie theater

TICKETS A 3117 16th Street (near Valencia Street)

R T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL victoria theatre

2961 16th street (between Mission and Capp Streets)

alamo drafthouse R new mission 2550 Mission Street (between 21st and 22nd Streets)

Please note that the YCBA Screening Room and Forum are both located in the main museum building, but the YBCA Theater has a separate entrance at 700 Howard Street. opening night

big nights

Celebrate SFFILM Festival’s landmark Landline

Gillian Robespierre / USA / 2017 / 96 min screening events with world-class filmmakers Welcome to the ‘90s. Dana (Jenny Slate) is a magazine art-department grunt who’s feeling apprehensive about marrying her boyfriend (Transparent’s Jay Duplass) and actors in person at the Castro Theatre. and guilty over pining for an old college friend (Finn Wittrock). Her younger sister, Ali (newcomer Abby Quinn), is an NYU student flirting with after-hours clubbing and fluent in enraging her exasperated parents. As for Mom (Edie Falco) and Dad (John Turturro), they’re busy dealing with a failing marriage, possible infidelities, The Festival’s Big Nights give the Bay Area community and mutual career frustration. Running around a Giuliani-era Manhattan filled with hipster record stores, druggy raves, and pre-internet poetry slams, these middle- class New Yorkers are simply trying to find their own personal bliss to follow—and hopefully, some sort of landline to keep them grounded. Director-cowriter Gillian a chance to experience some of the most anticipated Robespierre reunites with her Obvious Child (Festival 2014) star for a follow-up that’s just as comically left-of-center and slyly moving, as well as indulging a nostalgia for the days of Mac II floppy disks and CD shopping. films of the year and to eat, drink, and dance

WEDNESDAY / APRIL 5 / 7:00 PM / CASTRO at our blowout parties from dusk ‘til dawn. centerpiece

9 BIG NIGHTS

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Geremy Jasper / USA / 2016 / 108 min TICKETS A

OPENING NIGHT PARTY The unqualified breakout hit of this year’s Sundance Festival, Geremy Jasper’s debut feature erupts with head-nodding beats from the opening scene and features the dynamic and stirring performance of

Kick off our landmark 60th anniversary and 2017 program with a bash at the Danielle Macdonald as the title character, a young woman who uses T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL historic Regency Center, featuring live entertainment, dancing, and treats her lyrics to escape, daring to dream of something better outside of her from some of San Francisco’s finest food and beverage purveyors. New Jersey working class life. She gathers a multi-racial motley crew Must be 21+ to attend. around her to make creative and invigorating music.

9:00 PM / THE REGENCY CENTER 1300 VAN NESS AVE (AT SUTTER)

FILM & PARTY / $60 MEMBER / $75 GENERAL WEDNESDAY / APRIL 12 / 7:30 PM / CASTRO VIP FILM & PARTY / $125 MEMBER / $150 GENERAL FILM ONLY (LIMITED QUANTITY) / $30 MEMBER / $35 GENERAL PARTY ONLY (LIMITED QUANTITY) / $40 MEMBER / $45 GENERAL $20 MEMBER / $25 GENERAL closing night

The Green Fog — 10 A San Francisco Fantasia with Kronos Quartet Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson / 65 min

The Festival closes with an original commission in celebration of its 60th anniversary when the world-renowned Kronos Quartet performs a new score by composer Jacob Garchik to accompany a visual collage by cultural iconoclast Guy Maddin and codirectors Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson.

Maddin, working with his Forbidden Room collaborators, set himself the challenge to remake Vertigo without using footage from the Hitchcock classic, creating a “parallel-universe version,” in his words. Using Bay Area footage from a variety of sources—studio classics, ‘50s noir, BIG NIGHTS experimental films, and ‘70s prime-time TV—and employing Maddin’s mastery of assemblage, the result exerts the inexorable pull of Hitchcock’s tale of erotic obsession while paying tribute to our fair city.

Composer Jacob Garchik fashions a score that converses with Maddin and Johnson’s CLOSING NIGHT PARTY irreverent and loving footage to create a distinctive musical extravaganza. San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet has combined Join us at perennial favorite party spot, Mezzanine, as we dance, drink, snack, and a spirit of fearless exploration with a celebrate 60 years of cinematic adventures. Must be 21+ to attend. commitment to continually re-imagine the string quartet experience for more than 40 years. They have collaborated 8:30 PM / MEZZANINE / 444 JESSIE ST (NEAR MINT) with recording artists including Paul McCartney, Laurie Anderson, Patti Smith, and David Bowie. Co-commissioned by FILM & PARTY / $75 MEMBER / $90 GENERAL Stanford Live. SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT VIP FILM & PARTY / $130 MEMBER / $160 GENERAL SUNDAY / APRIL 16 FILM ONLY (LIMITED QUANTITY) / $40 MEMBER / $50 GENERAL 7:00 PM / CASTRO PARTY ONLY (LIMITED QUANTITY) / $40 MEMBER / $50 GENERAL live Live & Onstage takes the Festival experience beyond the & onstage screen with live music, cutting-edge multimedia and cross- platform work, and innovative storytelling events. 11

PARALLEL SPACES: WILL OLDHAM & JEROME HILER The San Francisco International Film Festival and the Headlands Center for the Arts present a special program of improvised music by Will Oldham, aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (Headlands Artist in MONDAY / APRIL 10 Residence, 2008), to be performed live alongside the projection of experimental films created by Bay 8:00 PM / CASTRO Area artist Jerome Hiler. Joining Oldham are the Chicago-based Bitchin Bajas and Bay Area–based Cornelius Boots. Three of Hiler’s 16mm films, chosen by Hiler and Oldham, will be screened:Words of Mercury (2011), Marginalia (2015), and Bagatelle II (2016). $20 MEMBER / $25 GENERAL LIVE & ONSTAGE& ATSFFILM.ORG/FESTIVALLIVE TICKETS

ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION, LIVE SCORE OF GEORGE LUCAS’S THX 1138

The future is here. THX 1138 (George Lucas, 88 min, 1971) is set in a soundtrack—notable for its use of audio sampling from electronic dystopian future century when political paternalism reigns. Every music artists—adding dynamic dimension with live flute, guitar, bass, aspect of life is controlled by the state, efficiency is king, individual and percussion. Their current line-up features founding guitarist Steve thought is forbidden, and love is the ultimate perversion. Executive Savale, Dr Das (bass, guitars), Brian Fairbairn (drums), and Nathan produced by Francis Ford Coppola and written by Lucas and Walter Flutebox Lee (flute). Asian Dub Foundation has composed live re- Murch, THX 1138 conjures a world of chemical brainwashing, android scores of The Battle of Algiers (1966) and La Haine (1995), which they police, and constant surveillance brought to life with chilling intensity. performed live at London’s notorious Broadwater Farm housing estate, THX 1138 makes creative use of a number of iconic Bay Area locations, site of one of the UK’s most notorious riots. including the then-under-construction BART tunnels.

With their trademark fusion of punk rock, electronic beats, reggae, TUESDAY / APRIL 11 / 8:00 PM / CASTRO bhangra, and hip-hop, the multicultural Asian Dub Foundation is one of the most musically inventive bands on the scene. Their score for THX 1138 incorporates almost all of the film’s original distinctive $20 MEMBER / $25 GENERAL live & onstage

12 THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA WITH DEVOTCHKA

The Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 67 min, 1929) is charged and Gypsy to punk and folk—into their unique blend of expressive rock with the excitement of cinema’s possibilities. “The film drama is the music for more than a decade. Frontman Nick Urata and bandmates opium of the people,” Vertov wrote, “Long live life as it is!” Named in Jeanie Schroder (acoustic bass, sousaphone), Shawn King (percussion, a recent Sight & Sound poll as the one of the best movies ever made, trumpet), and Tom Hagerman (violin, viola, accordion, piano) bring their Vertov’s joyful trip through the streets of Moscow, Odessa, and Kiev multifaceted, cinematic melodies to Vertov’s influential classic. creates an expressive portrait of a modernizing world. THURSDAY / APRIL 13 / 8:00 PM / CASTRO Known for their popular soundtrack to Little Miss Sunshine, Denver’s DeVotchKa has been combining a range of influences—from Slavic $20 MEMBER / $25 GENERAL LIVE & ONSTAGE

MORE THINGS IN FILMS 18 BLACK GIRLS/BOYS AGES 1–18 WHO HAVE ARRIVED AT THE SINGULARITY AND Last year, we joined forces with THE THING Quarterly to present an evening of live storytelling heralding the unheralded: those details that ARE THUS SPIRITUAL MACHINES linger in the backgrounds of movies. Whether delightful, confusing, or Over two nights, artist Terence Nance presents an interactive self-portrait clarifying, these objects of our guests’ attentions inspired digressions of our society that reflects our biases back to us. Accompanied by artist and theories that were thought provoking and hilarious from storytellers Norvis Junior, and by musicians and dancers, Nance investigates the like Mystery Show host Starlee Kine and Adventure Time animator predispositions of our culture by exploring the ways that black youth— Elizabeth Ito. This year, our presenters—including Thao Nguyen and first girls, then boys, aged one through 18—are presented via internet other guests—will surely take us down another magical rabbit hole of searches. Presented in collaboration with Headlands Center for the Arts. cinephilic exploration. Full details at sffilm.org/festival. SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT SUNDAY / APRIL 16 / 5:00 PM / VICTORIA (GIRLS) WEDNESDAY / APRIL 12 / 6:00 PM / VICTORIA MONDAY / APRIL 17 / 6:00 PM / VICTORIA (BOYS)

$13 MEMBER / $15 GENERAL $13 MEMBER / $15 GENERAL awards Engage in in-depth conversations with the Festival’s honorees and special & tributes guests, and take advantage of unique screening opportunities and onstage presentations from some of world cinema’s most iconic figures.

A TRIBUTE TO ETHAN HAWKE In a career spanning 30 years and four Academy Award nominations, Ethan Hawke 13 has solidified his reputation as a multifaceted artist, challenging himself asa screenwriter, director, novelist, and actor of the stage and screen. In 2016, Hawke portrayed the late Chet Baker in Born to Be Blue and was also seen in The Phenom, Maggie’s Plan, The Magnificent Seven, and In a Valley of Violence. Additional credits include: Dead Poets Society (1989), Reality Bites (1994), Alive (1993), the Before trilogy, Hamlet (2000), Gattaca (1997), The Purge (2013), and Boyhood (2014). Join SFFILM Festival for a conversation with Ethan Hawke followed by a screening of his new film Maudie.

Maudie Aisling Walsh / Canada, Ireland / 2016 / 115 min Maud Lewis is one of Canada’s best-known folk artists. She transcended juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and the jeers and dismissal of others to create

colorful paintings on everyday surfaces like cookie sheets and wallboard. AWARDS & TRIBUTES Ethan Hawke is all gruff charm as a grizzled fish peddler who hires Maudie as his housekeeper while Sally Hawkins plays the irrepressible title role with her characteristic empathy.

$20 MEMBER / SATURDAY / APRIL 8 / 3:30 PM / YBCA $25 GENERAL

MEL NOVIKOFF AWARD: TOM LUDDY The Mel Novikoff Award is given to an individual or institution whose work has enhanced the film-going public’s appreciation of world cinema. Tom Luddy has been involved in making and showing movies TICKETS A since he directed student film societies at UC Berkeley. Since then, he has worked in film distribution, programmed repertory cinema, served on the board of the Festival, co-founded the Telluride Film Festival, produced landmark movies, and collaborated with filmmakers such as Agnès Varda, T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL Chris Marker, and Jean-Luc Godard. Luddy has been associated with American Zoetrope since 1979. Join SFFILM Festival for this program featuring a conversation followed by a rarely screened Godard short andA Long Happy Life. A Long Happy Life Gennadi Shpalikov / Russia / 1966 / 61 min A tale of love and disenchantment, Gennadi Shpalikov’s drama marries Chekhovian pessimism with the sunniness of Jean Vigo in this Siberian-set encounter between a geologist and a young mother. This Russian take on the road film plays with Une bonne à tout faire (Jean-Luc Godard, 8 min, 1981), a rare short filmed at Coppola’s American Zoetrope revolving around a tableau vivant of a Georges de La Tour painting.

$13 MEMBER / SUNDAY / APRIL 9 / 4:00 PM / CASTRO $15 GENERAL awards & tributes

GEORGE GUND III CRAFT OF CINEMA AWARD: 14 ELEANOR COPPOLA Eleanor Coppola is an American filmmaker, artist, writer, and Emmy award-winner for her filmHeart of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991). After nearly 30 years in the business, she has turned her skills to narrative filmmaking with her latest filmParis Can Wait. Formerly presented at the Film Society Awards Night Gala, this is the first public presentation of the George Gund III Craft of Cinema Award. Previous recipients include John Lasseter, Maurice Kanbar, and Peter Coyote. Join SFFILM Festival for this program and conversation, followed by a screening of Paris Can Wait.

Paris Can Wait Eleanor Coppola / USA / 2016 / 92 min A seemingly innocent offer of a ride from Cannes to Paris evolves into a flirtatious road trip as a playfully rakish bachelor (Arnaud Viard) woos the alternately amused and vexed wife (a luminous Diane Lane) of a friend. Eleanor Coppola’s effervescent first narrative feature celebrates transitory romance and the glories of France.

MONDAY / APRIL 10 $13 MEMBER / 7:00 PM / SFMOMA $15 GENERAL

AWARDS & TRIBUTES AWARDS PERSISTENCE OF VISION AWARD: LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON The Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award honors a filmmaker whose main body of work falls outside of the realm of narrative feature filmmaking. Recognized internationally for her innovative work investigating issues key to society—the relationship between identity and technology and the use of media against censorship and repression—Lynn Hershman Leeson’s film, installation, and multi-media work continues to inspire audiences. Her films have screened at the SFFILM Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and Berlin International Film Festival, winning numerous prizes. Join SFFILM Festival and YBCA for this program and conversation, followed by a screening of Tania Libre. Tania Libre Lynn Hershman Leeson / USA / 2017 / 73 min Bay Area filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson’s new documentary continues her ongoing exploration of groundbreaking women artists, with this portrait of the radical Cuban artist Tania Bruguera. Documenting Bruguera’s sessions with a therapist after a long period of house arrest, Tania Libre provides not only an intimate analysis of the

SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT current state of Cuba, but a profound exploration of how Bruguera’s fraught relationship with her family mirrors the politics of state repression and her own artistic practice. $13 MEMBER / TUESDAY / APRIL 11 / 7:30 PM / YBCA $15 GENERAL A TRIBUTE TO JOHN RIDLEY Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director, producer, and novelist John Ridley is 15 an unparalleled storyteller. His first bookStray Dogs was made into the feature filmU Turn directed by Oliver Stone in 1997. His film and television career includes writing Undercover Brother (2002), Red Tails (2012), and 12 Years a Slave (2013), for which he received the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. As a writer/director, his credits include Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013), television show American Crime (2013), and Showtime’s brand-new Guerrilla. Join SFFILM Festival for this program featuring a conversation followed by the first episode of Guerrilla.

Guerrilla John Ridley / USA, UK / 2017 / 60 min The first episode of John Ridley’s visceral political series drops us into the 1970s London world of activists Marcus Hill and his girlfriend Jas (Freida Pinto). The

couple embrace a more extreme form of political activity after a rally to protest AWARDS & TRIBUTES police brutality turns violent. News reports about Baader-Meinhof and other radical groups set the mood of the times as the two go underground and take on the Black Power Desk, a real-life counter-intelligence unit.

WEDNESDAY / APRIL 12 $20 MEMBER / 6:00 PM / ALAMO $25 GENERAL

A TRIBUTE TO GORDON GUND The Gund family has steadfastly supported SFFILM for many years, and we would not be the robust organization we are today without their assistance. Gordon Gund, with wife Lulie and other dedicated TICKETS A leaders, founded the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) in 1971 to find cures for retinal diseases at a time when very little was known about those vision-robbing diseases. Over the past 43 years, the Foundation has raised nearly $700 million in its effort to reverse blindness and T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL restore vision. In this newly initiated program focusing on philanthropy, SFFILM pays tribute to Gordon and his generous support for the research, treatments, and accomplishments of the FFB.

The Illumination Tom Scott / USA / 2016 / 20 min When Gordon Gund went blind in 1970 at age 30 due to retinitis pigmentosa, he resolved to find a cure for the disease and created the Foundation Fighting Blindness. After decades of scientific research, a major breakthrough emerged, and this short film showcases the inspirational story of a 17-year-old Belgian boy who is a beneficiary of this work.

FREE WITH THURSDAY / APRIL 13 / 5:00 PM / SFMOMA REGISTRATION awards & tributes

A TRIBUTE TO JAMES IVORY 16 Born in Berkeley, James Ivory is beloved by cinephiles the world over for the films he directed under the Merchant Ivory Productions banner. His association with Ismail Merchant lasted 44 years and through more than 25 films, earning a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest partnership in independent cinema history. He’s been nominated for Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and BAFTAs, twice winning the BAFTA for Best Film for Room with a View (1985) and Howards End (1993). Fall 2017 will see the release of the highly acclaimedCall Me By Your Name, which Ivory co-wrote with director Luca Guadagnino. Join SFFILM Festival for this program featuring a conversation followed by a screening of Maurice.

Maurice James Ivory / USA / 1987 / 140 min A diffident man in Edwardian England runs the risk of losing status and even his freedom if he follows his heart in Ivory’s elegant, erotically charged adaptation of E.M. Forster’s novel. Social propriety exerts a pull on Maurice (James Wilby) that is hard to resist, but when he meets gamekeeper Alec Scudder (Rupert Graves), the young stockbroker cannot deny his passionate attraction to the handsome, rough-hewn servant. 30th anniversary 4K restoration.

FRIDAY / APRIL 14 $20 MEMBER / 6:00 PM / SFMOMA $25 GENERAL

AWARDS & TRIBUTES AWARDS A TRIBUTE TO SHAH RUKH KHAN To muster an American equivalent to Shah Rukh Khan, you’d have to combine several high-wattage celebrities (Brad Pitt plus Tom Cruise plus Will Smith), and it still wouldn’t be enough. Khan—or “SRK” to his fans—is not only one of India’s biggest-ever stars, his fame has transcended borders and brought him worldwide acclaim. His three-decade career has encompassed over 80 films, including some of Bollywood’s most beloved blockbusters. Join SFFILM Festival for this program including a conversation followed by a screening of My Name Is Khan.

My Name is Khan Karan Johar / India / 2010 / 165 min Bollywood’s biggest director and star come together for a moving and meaningful story of Muslims in America. Shah Rukh Khan gives a shaded and multi-dimensional performance as Rizvan Khan, an Indian Muslim with Asperger’s syndrome who moves to San Francisco to be with his brother after their mother dies. The film presents a moving and important message of racial harmony as 9/11 upends everyone’s lives and

SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT presents Khan with a mission he cannot refuse.

$30 MEMBER / FRIDAY / APRIL 14 / 8:30 PM / CASTRO $40 GENERAL special Compelling onstage presentations, special spotlights on Bay events Area individuals and institutions, free screenings, new media exhibitions, and more make up the 2017 Festival’s Special Events. 17 SPECIAL EVENTS TICKETS AT SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL

CITIZEN KANE I LOVE DICK WITH WILLIAM R. HEARST III WITH SPECIAL GUESTS Orson Welles / USA / 1941 / 120 min Jill Soloway / USA / 2016 / 60 min

Orson Welles’ wildly audacious breakthrough imagines the flamboyant When Chris’s film project loses funding, she decides to accompany her life of mining heir Charles Foster Kane who parlays his fortune into husband Sylvere to Marfa, Texas, where he’s been invited to an artist tabloid media superstardom and runs for office as a populist savior. retreat headed up by a charismatic sculptor named Dick. Transparent’s Welles’ 1941 masterpiece of American ambition, delusion, and broken Kathryn Hahn expertly conveys Chris’s anxious lust for Dick, played with dreams was inspired by the life of publisher William Randolph Hearst. gusto and cowpoke charm by Kevin Bacon. The Festival is presenting Join us for this special screening of an American classic that will two episodes from this new series created by Jill Soloway, adapted from include an onstage conversation between Hearst’s grandson William R. Chris Kraus’s provocative book of the same name. Hearst III—one of the first times a family member has addressed the film publicly—and film historian David Thomson.

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XIU XIU: THE SENT-DOWN GIRL 18 (20TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING) Joan Chen / USA, Hong Kong, Taiwan / 1998 / 99 min An astonishingly confident directorial debut from San Francisco-based actress Joan Chen (The Last Emperor), Xiu Xiu is a heartbreaking coming-of-age melodrama set during the later stages of the Cultural Revolution. Coaxing gorgeously refined performances out of radiant newcomer Lu Lu and the Tibetan-born Lopsang, Chen weaves a story of love unspoken and love lost. Twenty years later, her deft and subtle mix of love and politics remains a landmark of Chinese cinema. SATURDAY / APRIL 8 / 1:00 PM / SFMOMA

$13 MEMBER / $15 GENERAL DISPOSABLE FILM FESTIVAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY TRT 90 min It might be a coincidence that the tenth anniversary of the Disposable Film Festival (DFF) is also shared with the first generation of the iPhone, but in all of cinema history, there have never been more “film- makers.” Founder Carlton Evans recognized that the rapid melding of handheld recording devices with the accessibility-driven DIY movement SPECIAL EVENTS was rearing a new breed in cinema, the disposable filmmaker. This conversation with Evans, interspersed with selections from a decade of DFF’s top shorts, exemplifies the burgeoning impact of ubiquitous technology on the next wave of cinema. THURSDAY / APRIL 13 / 8:30 PM / ROXIE

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CANYON CINEMA 50: GUY MADDIN PRESENTS THE GREAT BLONDINO AND OTHER DELIGHTS TRT 75 min The purveyor of some of the most hallucinatory experiments in modern cinema, Guy Maddin turns his eye for the delectably idiosyncratic to the collection of Canyon Cinema. In conjunction with Canyon Cinema 50, a year-long celebration of the organization’s historic anniversary, Maddin presents a handful of delightful

SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT diversions from its catalog. Ripe with rambling charm, Robert Nelson and William T. Wiley’s inspired classic of the west coast avant-garde, The Great Blondino (1967), anchors the program, which eschews SATURDAY / APRIL 15 / 8:30 PM / SFMOMA realism in favor of the ecstatic. $13 MEMBER / $15 GENERAL special events: film & tech

CREATIVITY SUMMIT The inaugural Creativity Summit, produced in partnership with Pixar and Wired, brings together trailblazers 19 at the intersection of film and technology for a day of panels and networking with leaders in both fields. 2017 represents the launch of this inspiring summit, which will kick off with the Festival’s State of Cinema keynote—this year delivered by Dr. Edwin Catmull of Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios. The afternoon will feature programs and talks by individuals on the vanguard of art, film, and tech in the city where these forces most powerfully intersect. For participants, schedule, and ticket details, visit sffilm.org/festival. PRESENTED BY

STATE OF CINEMA: ED CATMULL Each year, SFFILM invites a visionary thinker to discuss the intersecting worlds of contemporary cinema and visual arts, culture and society, and images and ideas. At this year’s Festival, Dr. Edwin Catmull of Pixar Animation Studios will speak to the State of Cinema, dispelling the

myth that art and tech are incongruous. In his talk, Catmull will discuss the importance of SPECIAL EVENTS TICKETS AT SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL skepticism when exploring new technology, and cite historic successes and failures that have paved the way for a time when technology is such a significant tool in empowering artists of all disciplines. Additional Pixar artists will join Catmull on stage for an extended conversation following the keynote, which will be moderated by Wired magazine. TRT 90 min.

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VR DAYS Our popular VR Days program returns for a second year, and now spans two days of immersive storytelling. Come experience some of the year’s finest VR work and meet the artists behind this cutting-edge medium. From an Oscar-nominated animated short (Pearl) to interactive re- enactments of historic battles (My Brother’s Keeper) to cinematic dance on camera (Through You), this year’s lineup showcases a diverse slate of the best in VR.

Held at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, VR Days celebrates the great work coming out of the Bay Area and from around the world, with projects from Felix & Paul Studios, Oculus, Google, New York Times VR, and more. Check out the best of virtual reality as well as a robust series of panels with some of the thought leaders in this field. For program, panels, schedule, and pricing details, visit sffilm.org/festival. PHOTO BY TOMMY LAU BY TOMMY PHOTO

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$20 MEMBER / $25 GENERAL special events : free screenings

RIVERS AND TIDES – 20 ANDY GOLDSWORTHY WORKING WITH TIME

Thomas Riedelsheimer / Germany, Finland, UK, Canada / 2001 / 90 min

In this contemplative and insightful film, director Thomas Riedelsheimer shows artist Andy Goldsworthy as he works to understand the energy of the natural landscapes that nourish his vision. A superb musical score by Fred Frith deepens our sense of the precarious but beautiful balance Goldsworthy strives for in taking his work “to the very edge of its collapse.” SATURDAY / APRIL 8 / 2:30 PM / VOGUE

FREE WITH REGISTRATION WHOSE STREETS? Sabaah Folayan / USA / 2016 / 94 min

A story told from the inside out, Whose Streets? documents the movement that arose when Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager from Ferguson, was shot and killed by police. A vigorous condemnation of bias and brutality, the film traces the days and months following the shooting as collective mourning leads to protests and, while a highly militarized police force fans the flames, protesters grow into activists. SPECIAL EVENTS Raw and powerful, Whose Streets? gives voice to a community that deserves to be heard.

PROXY is a temporary two-block project that mobilizes a flexible environment of food, art, culture, and retail. FRIDAY / APRIL 14 / 8:00 PM / PROXY

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DEFENDER Jim Choi, Jeff Adachi / USA / 2017 / 70 min

Jeff Adachi is a public defender in San Francisco who takes on the misdemeanor case of 22-year-old Michael Smith, who pleaded not guilty in one of the first body camera cases in the city when he was charged with nine counts of resisting arrest. This urgent documentary shows how far Adachi and his team will fight for the young man’s freedom while exposing black-crime bias in ostensibly liberal SF. Screens with The Boombox Collection: Zion I (10 min).min) SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT

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FREE WITH REGISTRATION master The Festival’s Master Classes provide opportunities for intimate, engaging classes interactions with filmmakers, local thought leaders, and top industry professionals. 21

We Are All Storytellers: Finding Characters In Two or Three Things That A Pixar in a Box Unlikely Places with Pixar’s Frighten Me in Vertigo: David Workshop for Girls Newest Short, Lou: A Thomson Master Class Workshop for Kids

TRT 120 min TRT 120 min TRT 158 min MASTER CLASSES

Join women artists from Pixar Animation Join Pixar Animation Studios Director Dave Vertigo is a fear of losing our balance. But Studios for a program for young girls Mullins for a screening of and discussion if we’re so wary, why do we long to fall into interested in writing and storytelling. This about his new animated short Lou. Pixar has the consuming intrigue of films like Alfred Master Class is a collaboration with Pixar created some of the most original and beloved Hitchcock’s Vertigo? If we’re anxious about in a Box—a free online resource that shows characters in the history of animation, from falling, why do we treasure the intimidating students how Pixar artists use math, science, Woody and Buzz to Dory and Hank. Mullins steepness of our city? David Thomson’s and humanities as a part of their process. will show how the story of Lou developed exploration of what is now allegedly “the best

We’ll begin by looking at the history of women from an idea to the finished film. Participants movie of all time” will show its sinister beauty storytellers in film. Then we’ll learn how will learn how his unique character came to and its cruel playing with desire. But other

each of them began telling stories and how be, and how inspiration can be found in the questions arise: Why do we need to be afraid? TICKETS A they developed their storytelling skills. By most unlikely places. Dave will lead hands- How can the mystery of a film undermine us examining films that presenters worked on, on activities, teaching participants how to as well as its characters? Is this the movie students will also learn about the Pixar story draw the newest Pixar star and guiding them we deserve? (Whatever happened to Gavin development process. Students will then jump through sculpting and drawing exercises Elster?) And even if Vertigo is “better” than into creativity exercises, empowering them to as they create their own characters. Please Citizen Kane, don’t forget that one man wrote T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL start thinking of themselves as storytellers and bring in one item for inspiration that you the music for both films. They have the same inspiring them to develop the unique ideas that would typically find in your school’s lost-and- sound of dread. Hitchcock’s 1958 masterwork they already have inside of them. Presented in found box. Presented in partnership with the will screen as part of the master class. partnership with the Walt Disney Family Museum. Walt Disney Family Museum.

This is a drop-off class for girls ages 10–14. This is a drop-off class for kids ages 8–12. Ticket price does not include museum admission. Ticket price does not include museum admission.

SUNDAY / APRIL 9 / 10:30 AM SATURDAY / APRIL 15 / 3:00 PM SUNDAY / APRIL 16 WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM 1:00 PM / SFMOMA

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Featuring new work from world cinema’s

Endless Poetry leading voices—plus a few handpicked Alejandro Jodorowsky / Chile, Japan, France / 2016 / 128 min Legendary cult director, poet, writer, Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, 1970) continues exploring deeply personal cinema with the second film of a proposed gems from the archives—the Masters five-part cinematic autobiography, a wonderous celebration that depicts his life as a young adult in Chile, trying to find his way as a poet. In his inimitably playful fashion, the director himself appears at several moments to instruct his younger self. Jodorowsky’s son Adan plays the young Alejandro, who comes to terms with his section explores films by the storytellers that need to create in this vibrant, personal spectacle that makes for a joyful cinematic experience. have defined this generation of filmmaking. MONDAY / APRIL 10 / 8:30 PM / ROXIE WEDNESDAY / APRIL 19 / 8:30 PM / ROXIE MASTERS

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Leaning Into the Wind – Andy Goldsworthy Ma’ Rosa Thomas Riedelsheimer / UK / 2017 / 92 min Brillante Ma Mendoza / Philippines / 2016 / 110 min Thomas Riedelsheimer’s landmark Rivers and Tides (Festival 2002) inventively Unfolding in what feels like real time with a gritty social realist style,Ma’ Rosa is the documented artist Andy Goldsworthy as he created his wondrously ephemeral harrowing and timely story of a couple who are arrested for selling crystal meth. The site-specific sculptures, spun from nature. Fifteen years later, Goldsworthy is still new film by internationally acclaimed Filipino director Brillante Mendoza follows appealingly engaged in his philosophical and tactical exploration of the natural their children’s race against the clock to find the money to bribe corrupt police into world. Leaning Into the Wind is a collaborative sequel—a visual and aural sensation releasing their parents. Lead actress Jaclyn Jose was awarded the Best Actress that takes viewers into the hillsides, terrains, and other outdoor spaces where prize at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival for her searing performance. Goldsworthy feels most at home and inspired. SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT

SATURDAY / APRIL 8 / 6:45 PM / SFMOMA SATURDAY / APRIL 8 / 6:00 PM / BAMPFA SUNDAY / APRIL 9 / 1:30 PM / BAMPFA SUNDAY / APRIL 16 / 5:30 PM / ROXIE 23 Nocturama The Ornithologist Bertrand Bonello / France, Germany, Belgium / 2016 / 130 min João Pedro Rodrigues / Portugal, France, Brazil / 2016 / 118 min Master filmmaker Bertrand Bonello brings us a chilling, timely, and controversial When a strapping young ornithologist becomes stranded in the wilderness, his new work. Nocturama follows a band of multiracial young radicals as they carry increasingly bizarre ordeals are by turns comic, sexy, surreal, mystic, and mystifying. out a series of simultaneous attacks across Paris before seeking shelter in a luxury This metaphysical (but also very physical) adventure by Portugal’s most idiosyncratic shopping mall to hide out and celebrate their unexplained actions. Stars several of auteur twists Catholic iconography into a playfully modern pretzel shape. France’s hottest young actors.

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TICKETS A T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL Sieranevada Story of a 3-Day Pass (50th Anniversary Screening) Cristi Puiu / Romania / 2016 / 173 min Melvin Van Peebles / France / 1967 / 87 min A movie about big themes set in a small space, Cristi Puiu’s (The Death of Mr. Melvin Van Peebles’ first feature film describes the experiences of a Black American Lazarescu) latest masterpiece takes place primarily in a three-bedroom flat where soldier who is given a weekend pass in Paris. Quite by chance, he meets a French various and numerous relations wait (and wait) for the local priest to deliver last rites girl, Miriam, and they take a trip to Brittany together. The simple context of a love to the family patriarch. Leavened with the director’s trademark black humor, the affair is not really the subject of this film—it is really a sentimental comedy in which film explores, among other things, the psychic cost when people know they’re being racial problems are treated with subtlety and wry humor. lied to but pretend otherwise.

TUESDAY / APRIL 11 / 6:30 PM / BAMPFA FRIDAY / APRIL 7 / 6:00 PM / ROXIE SUNDAY / APRIL 16 / 8:00 PM / SFMOMA marquee This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous Barbara Kopple / USA / 2017 / 92 min presentations

Using YouTube videos and interviews, Oscar-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple tells the story of how Gregory Lazzarato became Gigi Gorgeous, the 24 internet superstar, beauty expert, and mentor who documented her transition online. With tender moments between family members, personal online confessions, and private procedures made public, Gigi’s life is movingly available for viewers to see and connect with.

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Following the screening on April 12, Gigi Gorgeous will be joined by Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple; Ian Roth, who oversees development and launch of YouTube Originals; and other special guests for a conversation about YouTube, social media, and its impact on our doc lives. More guests to be announced. STERS MA

The Unknown Girl Yourself and Yours Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne / Belgium, France / 2016 / 106 min Hong Sang-soo / South Korea / 2016 / 86 min Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have won the Palme d’Or twice for their incomparable Hong’s latest seriocomedy about booze and breaking up details the life of a painter portraits of underrepresented lives. Here, their protagonist is an empathetic and named Young-soo who hears that his girlfriend Minjung has been seen with another hard-working female doctor who feels morally obligated to uncover the identity of a man. Anger and jealousy lead him to a frantic search for her, but when multiple woman who died near her office. Adèle Haenel (also inNocturama ) is unforgettable versions of Minjung seem to be appearing around town, the film takes a marvelous as Doctor Davin while Dardennes regulars Jérémie Renier and Olivier Gourmet rabbit-hole dive into Buñuel territory where what men don’t know about women bring gravity to two of the supporting roles. manifests itself in curious ways. TICKETS AT SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT

FRIDAY / APRIL 7 / 8:45 PM / BAMPFA SATURDAY / APRIL 8 / 8:00 PM / DOLBY SUNDAY / APRIL 9 / 3:45 PM / VICTORIA SUNDAY / APRIL 9 / 4:00 PM / ROXIE marquee presentations Rounding up the hottest films of the 25 season, the Marquee section features Beach Rats Eliza Hittman / USA / 2016 / 95 min the industry’s top talent and A sinister, moody exploration of sexual identity, Eliza Hittman’s follow-up to her feature debut It Felt Like Love (2013) sensuously balances two different but connected worlds in a young man’s life. Strikingly handsome Frankie (sensational newcomer Harris Dickinson) is a master at maintaining a macho facade, getting the international festival circuit’s most buzz- stoned and playing handball with his Coney Island bro friends. Meanwhile, he harbors a secret life, exploring sexual play with guys he meets online. MARQUEE PRESENTATIONS worthy titles that are certain to dominate

SUNDAY / APRIL 9 / 8:45 PM / SFMOMA the summer’s film conversation. TUESDAY / APRIL 11 / 4:00 PM / ROXIE

Bill Nye: Science Guy

David Alvarado, Jason Sussberg / USA / 2017 / 90 min

The effortlessly charming, bow-tie sporting scientist Bill Nye is beloved by all TICKETS A generations who grew up watching his show, Bill Nye the Science Guy, but vilified by climate change deniers and religious fundamentalists. Skilled documentarians (and fans!) David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg travel along with Nye as he works tirelessly to make the world a better place through science advocacy and

education and reflects on his life and career as one of America’s most famous T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL science minds.

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The April 10 screening will include a special Q&A and conversation with subject and Science Guy, Bill Nye; the filmmakers David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg; and Dr. Eugenie C. Scott, the former Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, an organization that defends the teaching of evolution and climate change in public schools. doc sffilm supported 26 doc Buster’s Mal Heart Casting JonBenet Sarah Adina Smith / USA / 2016 / 98 min Kitty Green / USA, Australia / 2016 / 81 min In this unsettling narrative, Rami Malek (Mr. Robot) plays an unkempt man named Kitty Green’s provocative film creates a new approach to the JonBenet Ramsey Buster who hides out in unoccupied vacation homes and calls into radio shows ranting murder case, still a source of endless fascination even after 20 years. By auditioning about Y2K. In other sequences, he is a mild-mannered hotel concierge named Jonah actors from Ramsey’s Colorado hometown for a film about the crime, this stylized with a wife and daughter. With a dizzying narrative that blends reality and fantasy, documentary offers a sensitive look at how time, memory, and personal experiences the director reconciles these two characters in moving and unforgettable fashion. can shape perceptions of exhaustively covered events, while making us examine our own perceptions and prejudices about the story. ATIONS SUNDAY / APRIL 9 / 9:00 PM / VICTORIA FRIDAY / APRIL 7 / 9:15 PM / DOLBY MONDAY / APRIL 10 / 6:30 PM / YBCA SATURDAY / APRIL 8 / 3:00 PM / YBCA MARQUEE PRESENT

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Chasing Coral City of Ghosts Jeff Orlowski / USA / 2017 / 91 min Matthew Heineman / USA / 2016 / 90 min With reefs dying off at an alarming rate, Jeff Orlowski (Chasing Ice, Festival 2012) Matthew Heineman’s (Cartel Land, 2015) powerful documentary follows the men sets off with a team of technologists and “coral nerds” to document the beauty and behind Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently—a group of activists who have risked fragility of these extraordinary ecosystems in order to bring the world’s attention to their personal freedom and safety to confront the Islamic Brotherhood by sharing their peril. Folding in engaging testimony from marine biologists and researchers, information. In our current political climate, the mission of this film’s subjects Chasing Coral is filled with heartrendingly beautiful images of both bounty and becomes more urgent than ever, as these men fight to share the truth for their decay, creating a gorgeous, urgent elegy for the sea. family, their country, and the greater good. TICKETS AT SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT

THURSDAY / APRIL 13 / 6:00 PM / ALAMO THURSDAY / APRIL 6 / 6:00 PM / CASTRO SUNDAY / APRIL 16 / 3:00 PM / ALAMO doc sffilm supported 27 Dolores Golden Exits Peter Bratt / USA / 2017 / 98 min Alex Ross Perry / USA / 2016 / 94 min Lifelong community organizer Dolores Huerta founded the United Farm Workers Tackling the lives and woes of the hyperarticulate and emotionally manipulative, with Cesar Chavez in 1962 and directed the decisive national boycott of Delano Perry’s latest effort features an expert ensemble cast in a story about a young woman grapes. San Francisco native Peter Bratt’s (La Mission, Festival 2009) vibrant who comes to work for an archivist and causes a series of emotional ripples among historical documentary revisits those landmark accomplishments and Huerta’s the members of his extended family. Chloë Sevigny as the emotionally precarious tireless activism against poverty, pesticides, racism, and injustice. Huerta’s myriad archivist’s wife and Mary-Louise Parker as her verbally poisonous sister deliver their battles and sacrifices as the lone woman on the UFW board and the mother of 11 acidulous lines with particular flair.

children are integral to her story and to the times. MARQUEE PRESENTATIONS

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TICKETS A T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL The Hero The Incredible Jessica James Brett Haley / USA / 2017 / 96 min Jim Strouse / USA / 2016 / 83 min Sam Elliott brings the full force of his silvery, sexy charm to this bittersweet portrait As an aspiring playwright and children’s theater coach on the rebound from a long- of an aging cowboy star. With his career mostly in the past, worrisome health issues, term relationship, former Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams brings her and fraught relationships, Lee Hayden is only too aware of the the gulf between his unique mixture of blunt outspokenness and warm vulnerability to this low-key valiant screen persona and his own frail humanity. But then he meets a younger comedy about the search for love and success in the big city, enlivening a tried and woman and receives some unexpected notoriety, and a man who has been living on true genre with a delightfully fresh perspective. As a mismatched potential fix-up, the fumes of past glories suddenly begins to contemplate a future. Chris O’Dowd is a charming foil for Williams’s engagingly complicated character.

TUESDAY / APRIL 11 / 6:00 PM / SFMOMA SATURDAY / APRIL 8 / 7:30 PM / YBCA THURSDAY / APRIL 13 / 3:00 PM / ALAMO 28 Infinity Baby The Journey Bob Byington / USA / 2017 / 80 min Nick Hamm / UK / 2016 / 94 min Although they’re the result of a scientific experiment gone awry, the infants that Nick Hamm’s tightly directed history re-imagines the beginning of detente in fail to age in Bob Byington’s provocative new comedy seem to fit seamlessly into Northern Ireland as a chamber thriller, as Democrat Unionist Party leader Ian a modern world of adults in perpetual emotional adolescence. Shot in crisp black Paisley (Timothy Spall) and Sinn Féin MP Martin McGuiness (Colm Meaney) are and white, with a ready-for-anything cast that includes Nick Offerman, Martin Starr, forced by circumstances to take a long, fateful car ride together. Meaney and Spall’s Kevin Corrigan, and Kieran Culkin as four eternal man-children, Infinity Baby is a marvelous performances bring out the hostility, despair, and surprising humor in pointed and droll dissection of modern life, technology, and relationships. this depiction of a momentous turning point in the saga of “the troubles.” ATIONS SATURDAY / APRIL 8 / 9:30 PM / SFMOMA SUNDAY / APRIL 9 / 1:00 PM / VICTORIA MONDAY / APRIL 10 / 4:00 PM / ROXIE MARQUEE PRESENT

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Lady Macbeth Long Strange Trip William Oldroyd / UK / 2016 / 89 min Amir Bar-Lev / USA / 2017 / 238 min Skillfully adapted from a Russian novella rather than Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth Amir Bar-Lev’s deep-dive Grateful Dead documentary will make even the most ferociously depicts a young woman, sold into marriage on the manor, as she finds diehard fan feel they’ve barely scratched the surface. Using home movies, concert her way to blood-soaked power and sexual fulfillment. Twenty-year-old Florence clips, new interviews, and never-before-seen footage, Long Strange Trip charts the Pugh gives the film’s antiheroine a feral sense of feminist fury in this stark pastoral band’s ups and downs in a documentary that is both a love letter to the Dead and tale of sex, lies, murder, and vengeance. their lifer fans, and a peerless glimpse into the mindset of musicians who risked it all to find transcendence in camaraderie and the right improvised chord progression. TICKETS AT SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT

SUNDAY / APRIL 9 / 6:30 PM / VICTORIA SATURDAY / APRIL 15 / 6:30 PM / CASTRO MONDAY / APRIL 10 / 3:00 PM / YBCA science on screen 29 The Lost City of Z Marjorie Prime James Gray / USA / 2016 / 140 min Michael Almereyda / USA / 2016 / 99 min Director James Gray’s stunning adaptation of David Grann’s bestseller traces the Michael Almereyda’s complex and moving film introduces us to Walter Prime (Jon stranger-than-fiction history of an early 20th-century English army officer who Hamm), an hologram meant to help the aged Marjorie (stage legend Lois Smith) believes he’s discovered a long-lost civilization deep in the Amazonian jungle. Part recall treasured memories shared with her husband. As family members feed Herzogian exploration of Mother Nature’s heart of darkness, part Kipling-esque Walter questionable information about their lives together, jealousies erupt around ripping yarn, and part widescreen epic, The Lost City of Z follows one man’s descent their mother’s affection for this non-human. This low-tech science fiction thought down the rabbit hole of an obsession one muddy step at a time. experiment features fine performances from an accomplished cast that also

includes Tim Robbins and a heartbreaking Geena Davis. MARQUEE PRESENTATIONS

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doc doc T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press STEP Brian Knappenberger / USA / 2017 / 96 min Amanda Lipitz / USA / 2016 / 83 min The trial between Hulk Hogan and Gawker Media seemed like a standard sex-tape Stepping—a dance style of clapping, stomping, and using the body to make noise lawsuit after the private video was posted online. But Hogan’s lawyers (with the help for a beat—is high-energy and precise, but the Lethal Ladies step team from of a Silicon Valley mogul) won the case, bankrupting Gawker, and signifying a major The Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women has more to focus on than a threat for journalists, the media, and First Amendment rights. Through this often cherished trophy. With the school’s mandate to send every student to college and the absurd and timely documentary, it becomes clear that the outcome that impacted statewide Step contest approaching, this electric documentary follows three young Gawker has much larger implications for the free press in the future. women through a year of hardships at home and school, while celebrating their tenacity and drive to transcend their circumstances.

THURSDAY / APRIL 6 / 8:30 PM / ROXIE SUNDAY / APRIL 9 / 4:00 PM / YBCA SUNDAY / APRIL 9 / 8:30 PM / YBCA Surprise Secret Screening 120 min 30 Join us for a very special advanced screening of a powerful documentary that takes a deep look into the social and historical roots of a seminal event in recent California history involving justice, racial bias, and protest—told through the moving stories of the lives it changed forever and directed by an acclaimed writer, filmmaker, and producer. Ticket holders agree not to write, talk, or tweet about this highly anticipated film before its official premiere.

WEDNESDAY / APRIL 12 8:45 PM / ALAMO ATIONS global visions MARQUEE PRESENT

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Walking Out Alex Smith, Andrew Smith / USA / 2017 / 96 min A moose hunting trip into Montana’s mountains meant as a rite of passage and to bridge a growing divide between a divorced dad (Matt Bomer, A Normal Heart) and his young teenage son (Josh Wiggins, Hellion, Festival 2014) takes a dangerous turn under wintry conditions in Alex and Andrew Smith’s haunting adaptation of David Quammen’s short story. It is a thrilling, deceptively simple drama that packs an emotional wallop and features some of the finest performances to be seen so far this year. TICKETS AT SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT

SUNDAY / APRIL 16 / 1:00 PM / CASTRO TUESDAY / APRIL 18 / 3:30 PM / ALAMO doc 31 Bending the Arc Kief Davidson, Pedro Kos / USA / 2017 / 102 min Bending the Arc is the inspirational and timely story of intrepid doctors and humanitarians, Paul Farmer and Jim Kim (now the president of the World Bank), who have devoted their lives to providing innovative health care to the globe’s most impoverished nations. This comprehensive film follows their decades-long struggle to treat and eradicate TB and HIV/AIDS in rural areas of Peru, Haiti, and Africa. It is a timely reminder of how big ideas and international cooperation make social change a reality. global FRIDAY / APRIL 14 / 5:00 PM / CASTRO GLOBAL VISIONS visions

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every corner of the planet, Global Visions T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL Born in China Lu Chuan / USA, China / 2016 / 76 min takes audiences on a cinematic Since 2008, the Disneynature series has successfully brought inspiring wildlife documentaries to the screen, releasing a new film every Earth Day.Born in China marks a new, ambitious collaboration for the series, a partnership with the Chinese government to create a celebration of the country’s flora and fauna. Featuring journey that begins in the Bay Area and goes stunning cinematography and narration by John Krasinski, the film follows the lives of three animal families of giant pandas, golden snub-nosed monkeys, and snow leopards to inspire passions toward conservation of these endangered animals. anywhere that films are made. Recommended for ages 6 and up.

SUNDAY / APRIL 9 / 1:00 PM / CASTRO 32 California Dreams A Date for Mad Mary Mike Ott / USA / 2017 / 85 min Darren Thornton / Ireland / 2016 / 82 min Toeing the line between documentary, fiction, and uncomfortable comedy, director Fresh from serving a six-month jail sentence for brawling, Mary embarks on Mike Ott (Littlerock, Festival 2010; Pearblossom Highway, Festival 2012) returns a time-crunched hunt for an acceptable bloke to be her “plus one” at the tightly with an eccentric portrait of five aspiring actors in Lancaster, California, whose choreographed wedding ceremony of her stressed-out and slightly distant best Hollywood dreams are a world away, despite their geographic proximity. Their friend Charlene. Dogged by her own history and uncertain of the future, the willful humble lives are juxtaposed with the stunning and vast landscapes of the Mojave, Mary sets out on a search that takes her to uncharted places in Darren Thornton’s accentuating the bittersweet reality of just how how far these dreamers are from unconventional and energetic romantic comedy. their aspirations.

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Discreet A Dragon Arrives! Travis Mathews / USA / 2017 / 80 min Mani Haghighi / Iran / 2016 / 108 min In the provocative and haunting new feature from San Francisco-based filmmaker A secret police agent arrives on a remote island to investigate the suicide of a political Travis Mathews (Interior. Leather Bar., 2013), a troubled drifter, traveling cross prisoner in 1960s Iran. But that’s only the beginning in a story that gleefully resets country in an old van, makes a pit stop in his hometown in rural Texas awash in itself as, at turns, a neo-noir thriller, a psychedelic folk tale, and a mockumentary right-wing talk radio. A quick visit with his estranged mother uncovers a startling investigation by director Haghighi and his crew. Whether read as political allegory revelation that forces him to confront demons of his past that he long thought dead or a high-spirited rollercoaster ride, this serpentine tale mesmerizes with its and buried while finding emotional comfort in provocative and kinky online hookups. intoxicating atmosphere of surreal beauty and narrative intrigue. Screens with Jay Rosenblatt’s Scared. Very Scared (7 min). TICKETS AT SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT

SATURDAY / APRIL 8 / 6:00 PM / CASTRO SATURDAY / APRIL 8 / 9:00 PM / CASTRO TUESDAY / APRIL 18 / 1:30 PM / ROXIE 33 Family Life The Future Perfect Cristián Jiménez, Alicia Scherson / Chile / 2017 / 80 min Nele Wohlatz / Argentina / 2016 / 65 min While housesitting for an estranged relative, Martín takes the phrase “Make yourself Eighteen-year-old Xiaobin travels from China to Buenos Aires to join her conservative at home” to uncomfortable extremes in this wry exploration of fortysomething family members who refuse to learn Spanish. They want her to stay within their malaise from luminary Chilean filmmakers Alicia Scherson and Cristián Jiménez. culture, but she rebels, taking a Spanish class where new lessons learned often lead After trashing the house and losing the cat, he starts an unlikely relationship with a to involved fantasies, like a “future perfect.” Locarno prizewinner Wohlatz recruited woman who has lost her dog. The funny and sexy screenplay is co-written by noted most of the cast from language schools, and brilliantly uses their innocence and Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra. naiveté to create an atmosphere of spontaneity, realism, and camaraderie.

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TICKETS A T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL Heal the Living Hermia & Helena Katell Quillévéré / France / 2016 / 104 min Matías Piñeiro / USA, Argentina / 2016 / 86 min Three storylines come together in this complex tale of a teenage surfer on life support, Foreknowledge of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is by no means required to enjoy a woman with an acute heart condition, and the medical staff who have devoted their Argentine writer-director Matías Piñeiro’s quasi-adaptation, in which a young lives to providing hope for the living by harvesting the organs of the dead. A splendid theater director comes to New York from Buenos Aires on a fellowship to translate cast, including Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, and Anne Norval, finds the Shakespeare’s play into Spanish—and discovers its relation to her life. Piñeiro emotional depth behind characters who are managing life-and-death situations. handles heady stuff with a wonderfully light touch, and the film casts a lasting spell with its genuine intimacy, ephemeral beauty, and unpretentious vitality.

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CASTRO MIN PG CASTRO MIN PG CASTRO MIN PG 6:00 Chasing Coral 91 26 6:00 Nocturama 130 23 8:45 Marjorie Prime 99 29 7:00 OPENING NIGHT YBCA Landline 96 8 34 YBCA 3:00 Next Skin 103 40

6:00 Motherland 94 40 6:00 Serenade for Haiti 72 47 6:30 Citizen Kane with 6:00 World Without End William R. Hearst III 150 17 (No Reported Incidents) 77 51 8:30 By the Time It 8:30 Godless 99 43 Gets Dark 105 50 9:15 Golden Exits 94 27

SFMOMA SFMOMA 3:00 Hotel Salvation 110 38 3:00 The Long Excuse 124 38 6:00 Everything Else 98 43 6:00 The Cage Fighter 82 45 8:45 El Mar La Mar 94 51 8:30 People You May Know 91 40

ROXIE DOLBY 3:30 The Student 118 41 6:00 The Paris Opera 110 40 6:00 I Called Him Morgan 91 38 9:15 Casting JonBenet 80 26 8:30 Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press 96 29 ROXIE 3:30 Everything Else 98 43 BAMPFA 6:00 Story of a 3-Day Pass 6:30 World Without End (50th Anniversary (No Reported Incidents) 77 51 Screening) 87 23 8:30 The Death of 8:15 Hotel Salvation 110 38 Louis XIV 115 50 11:00 The Transfiguration 97 53

SCHEDULE BAMPFA 6:30 I Called Him Morgan 91 38 8:45 The Unknown Girl 106 24 SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT 4/8 4/9 4/10 4/11 saturday sunday monday tuesday

CASTRO MIN PG CASTRO MIN PG CASTRO MIN PG CASTRO MIN PG 6:00 A Dragon Arrives! 108 32 1:00 Born in China 76 31 8:00 Parallel Spaces: 8:00 Asian Dub Foundation, 9:00 Discreet 87 32 4:00 Mel Novikoff Award: Will Oldham and Live Score of George Tom Luddy: A Long Jerome Hiler 70 11 Lucas’s THX 1138 88 11 YBCA Happy Life 105 13 35 YBCA YBCA 3:00 Casting JonBenet 80 26 7:00 Dolores 98 27

3:30 A Tribute to 12:00 VR Days 19 7:30 Persistence of YBCA Ethan Hawke: 3:00 Lady Macbeth 89 28 Vision Award: Maudie 160 13 12:00 VR Days 19 6:30 Buster’s Mal Heart 98 26 Lynn Hershman Leeson: Tania Libre 110 14 6:00 Life After Life 80 44 4:00 STEP 83 29 8:45 78/52 Headshot 117 91 53 52 7:30 The Incredible 6:00 Marjorie Prime 99 29 SFMOMA Jessica James 83 27 7:00 The Lost City of Z 140 29 SFMOMA 8:30 The Death of 3:00 Score: A Film Music 8:30 Nobody Speak: Trials 4:00 The Cinema Travellers 96 46 Documentary 93 41 Louis XIV 115 50 of the Free Press 96 29 7:00 George Gund Award: 6:00 The Hero 96 27 Eleanor Coppola: SFMOMA 9:00 Mad World 101 38 SFMOMA Paris Can Wait 130 14 1:00 Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down 12:30 Muhi - Generally ROXIE Girl (20th Anniversary Temporary 87 47 ROXIE Screening) 99 18 1:30 I Called Him Morgan 91 38 3:00 Marie Curie. The 1:30 People You May Know 91 40 3:45 The House 4:00 Beach Rats 95 25 Courage of Knowledge 100 39 4:00 Infinity Baby 80 28 of Tomorrow 100 44 6:15 Hermia & Helena 86 33 6:00 The Cinema Travellers 96 46 6:30 Who Cares. Who Sees: 6:45 Leaning Into the Wind – 8:45 Beach Rats 95 25 8:30 California Dreams 85 32 Andy Goldsworthy 92 22 Experimental Shorts 72 51 8:30 Endless Poetry 128 22 9:30 Infinity Baby 80 28 VICTORIA DOLBY SCHEDULE 6:00 The Force 93 46 DOLBY 1:00 Score: A Film VICTORIA Music Documentary 93 41 8:45 The Stopover 102 41 11:00a State of Cinema: 3:30 The Cage Fighter 82 45 4:15 The House of 6:00 Bill Nye: Ed Catmull 60 19 Tomorrow 100 44 BAMPFA 2:00 Creativity Science Guy 90 25 7:30 The Long Excuse 124 38 6:30 Sieranevada 173 23 Summit Panel 60 19 9:00 Heal the Living 104 33 4:30 Creativity ROXIE Summit Panel 60 19 8:00 Yourself and Yours 86 24 1:00 The Paris Opera 110 40 TICKETS A 4:00 Yourself and Yours 86 24 ROXIE 6:00 Shorts 1 88 48 12:30 Shorts 6: Youth Works 85 49 8:30 Shorts 3: Animation 72 48 2:45 Shorts 4: New Visions 73 49 VICTORIA T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL 5:00 Shorts 2 92 48 7:30 Motherland 94 40 1:00 The Journey 94 28 38 10:00 78/52 Headshot 117 91 53 52 3:45 The Unknown Girl 106 24 6:30 Lady Macbeth 89 28 VOGUE 9:00 Buster’s Mal Heart 98 26 2:30 Rivers and Tides – Andy Goldsworthy WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM Working with Time 90 20 10:30a We Are All Storytellers: A Pixar in a Box BAMPFA Workshop for Girls 120 21 1:30 The Paris Opera 110 40 4:00 Serenade for Haiti 72 47 BAMPFA 6:00 Ma’ Rosa 110 22 1:30 Leaning Into the Wind – 8:30 Who Cares. Who Sees: Andy Goldsworthy 92 22 Experimental Shorts 72 51 3:45 Godless 99 43

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CASTRO MIN PG CASTRO MIN PG CASTRO MIN PG CASTRO MIN PG 5:00 Brimstone & Glory 64 45 8:00 The Man with a 5:00 Bending the Arc 102 31 10:00a Shorts 5: Movie Camera 8:30 A Tribute to Family Films 65 49 with DeVotchKa 67 12 7:30 CENTERPIECE Shah Rukh Kahn: 3:00 Defender 80 20 36 My Name Is Khan 200 16 6:30 Long Strange Trip 238 28 Patti Cake$ 108 9 YBCA 1:00 Muhi - Generally YBCA YBCA Temporary 87 47 3:00 Serenade for Haiti 72 47 YBCA 5:00 The Stopover 102 41 4:15 Godless 99 43 6:00 In Loco Parentis 100 47 8:30 The Human Surge 97 44 1:30 The Death 6:30 Half-Life 8:30 Maliglutit of Louis XIV 115 50 in Fukushima 78 47 (Searchers) 94 39 SFMOMA 4:00 Mad World 101 38 9:00 Heaven Sent 70 44 12:30 The Challenge 83 46 6:30 El Mar La Mar 94 51 SFMOMA SFMOMA 2:45 The Cinema 9:00 Marie Curie. 6:00 A Tribute to The Courage of Travellers 96 46 45 5:00 A Tribute to James Ivory: 5:30 Donkeyote 86 46 Knowledge 100 39 Gordon Gund: Maurice 180 16 8:30 Canyon Cinema 50: The Illumination 60 15 9:30 Brimstone & Glory 64 45 ROXIE 6:45 The House Guy Maddin Presents The Great Blondino 2:00 The Challenge 83 46 47 of Tomorrow 100 44 ROXIE and Other Delights 90 18 4:00 California Dreams 85 32 9:30 The Cage Fighter 82 45 3:00 Everything Else 98 43 6:30 The Future Perfect 65 33 6:00 The Human Surge 97 44 ROXIE 8:30 Next Skin 103 40 ROXIE 8:30 Park 100 45 12:15 Life After Life 80 44 1:00 Duet 103 43 11:00 Mrs K 97 52 2:30 The Wedding Ring 96 45 VICTORIVICTORIAA 3:30 Next Skin 103 40 5:00 God’s Own 6:00 More THINGS 6:00 Family Life 81 33 ALAMO Country 105 43 in Films 75 12 8:30 Disposable Film 6:00 Heaven Sent 70 44 45 7:30 Duet 103 43 8:30 This Is Everything: Festival 10th Gigi Gorgeous 92 24 Anniversary 90 18 8:30 The Winter 95 42 10:00 Headshot 78/52 117 91 5253

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6:00 A Tribute to 3:00 The Hero 96 27 8:00 Whose Streets? 94 20 10:00a Member Screening 128 John Ridley: 6:00 26 1:15 Family Life 81 33 City of Ghosts 90 26 BAMPFA Guerrilla 90 15 9:15 By the Time It 4:00 I Love Dick 95 17 8:45 Surprise Secret Gets Dark 105 50 4:00 Life After Life 80 44 7:00 A Date for Screening 120 30 6:30 Mister Universo Universe 90 39 30 Mad Mary 82 32 BAMPFA 8:45 The Future Perfect 65 33 BABAMPFAMPFA 6:30 The Wedding Ring 96 45 WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM 6:30 Muhi - Generally 8:45 Hermia & Helena 86 33 3:00 Finding Characters Temporary 87 47 in Unlikely Places with 8:45 Family Life 81 33 Pixar’s Newest Short, Lou: A Workshop for Kids 120 21

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CASTRO MIN PG ROXIE MIN PG ROXIE MIN PG ROXIE MIN PG 1:00 Walking Out 96 30 3:30 Half-Life 1:30 A Dragon Arrives! 108 32 2:00 Half-Life in Fukushima 78 47 4:00 Mister Universo 90 39 in Fukushima 78 47 7:00 CLOSING NIGHT 6:00 In Loco Parentis 100 47 6:30 The Challenge 83 46 4:00 Donkeyote 86 46 8:30 Shorts 4: 6:00 Shorts 2 92 48 37 The Green Fog – 8:30 Shorts 1 88 48 A San Francisco New Visions 73 49 8:30 Endless Poetry 128 22 Fantasia 65 10 VICTORIA VICTORIA VICTORIA 1:00 Maliglutit (Searchers) 94 39 6:00 18 Black Girls/Boys 3:30 Hermia & Helena 86 33 1:00 The Wedding Ring 96 45 YBCA Ages 1-18 Who Have 4:00 The Future Perfect 65 33 Arrived at the Singularity 6:00 The Wedding Plan 110 42 2:30 By the Time It and Are Thus Spiritual 9:00 The Student 118 41 6:00 The Untamed 100 41 Gets Dark 105 50 Machines (Boys) 65 12 9:00 Headshot 117 52 5:30 The Student 118 41 8:30 Score: A Film ALAMO ALAMO 8:30 California Dreams 85 32 Music Documentary 93 41 3:30 Walking Out 96 30 6:30 Heaven Sent 70 44 3:00 Park 100 45 SFMOMA ALAMO 9:00 Bill Nye: 6:00 Heal the Living 104 33 1:00 Two or Three Things 5:30 The Transfiguration 97 53 Science Guy 90 25 That Frighten Me in 8:30 God’s Own Country 105 43 Vertigo: David Thomson Master Class 158 21 5:00 The Ornithologist 118 23 8:00 Sieranevada 173 23

ROXIE SCHEDULE 1:00 World Without End (No Reported Incidents) 77 51 3:15 Shorts 3: Animation 72 48 5:30 Ma’ Rosa 110 22

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BAMPFA 1:30 Maliglutit (Searchers) 94 39 3:45 Duet 103 43 6:00 Donkeyote 86 46 8:15 El Mar La Mar 94 51 38 doc Hotel Salvation I Called Him Morgan Shubhashish Bhutiani / India / 2016 / 110 min Kasper Collin / Sweden / USA / 2016 / 91 min In Shubhashish Bhutiani’s winning debut feature, 77-year-old Dayanand sees his Discovered by Dizzy Gillespie and the leader of his own quintet, Lee Morgan was a coming death in a dream and insists that his business-minded son take him to a hotel key player in New York’s ‘60s “hard-bop” scene. But a storied career was cut short in in the holy city of Varanasi. This run-down place is administered by a curmudgeon 1972 when his common-law wife Helen shot him to death. This riveting documentary who gives his residents two weeks to make their peace and then to pass over to draws an incredible portrait of the era’s after-hours jazz scene and recounts a wild their potential salvation. Dayanand’s son is torn between this magical time for amour fou story, in which two mercurial people can’t help turning their romance into his spiritualized father and the demands of modern India from back home. Hotel something like a Greek tragedy. Salvation’s gentle rhythms and beautiful setting allow us to join these characters in contemplating the big questions in life—and death.

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The Long Excuse Mad World Miwa Nishikawa / Japan / 2016 / 124 min Wong Chun / Hong Kong / 2017 / 101 min Tender and funny, Miwa Nishikawa’s new film, adapting her popular novel, tackles Without sanctifying or vilifying its protagonist, Wong Chun’s first feature movingly grief through a comedic lens. When the wife of a popular writer dies unexpectedly, tells the story of one man afflicted with bipolar disorder. Once a successful he bonds with another man who lost his beloved spouse in the same accident. stockbroker, Tung (Shawn Yue) is released from a sanatorium and moves into a By spending time with the other man’s family, the author learns about his own cramped apartment with his estranged father where they seek to rebuild their lives limitations in love and life. The much-celebrated Masahiro Motoki from Oscar- together by revisiting a tragic past. Winner of Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards for Best winning Departures (2008) is spectacular as the vain, emotionally lacking widower. New Director and Best Actress for Elaine Jim as Tung’s mother. TICKETS AT SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT

FRIDAY / APRIL 7 / 3:00 PM / SFMOMA TUESDAY / APRIL 11 / 9:00 PM / SFMOMA SUNDAY / APRIL 9 / 7:30 PM / DOLBY WEDNESDAY / APRIL 12 / 4:00 PM / YBCA 39 Maliglutit (Searchers) Zacharias Kunuk / Canada / 2016 / 94 min Canadian-Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk’s Maliglutit (Searchers) continues in the breathtaking vein of his unforgettable Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001) with this story of cruelty and cold revenge based loosely on John Ford’s The Searchers (1956) and spoken entirely in Inuktitut. As Kuanana (Benjamin Kunuk) dogsleds across the snowy tundra to find his kidnapped wife and daughter, the brutal Arctic landscape and the film’s unsettling sound design escalate the film to a visceral, lyrical experience.

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Marie Curie. The Courage of Knowledge Marie Noëlle / Germany, France, Poland / 2016 / 100 min TICKETS A An engaging portrait of the turbulent life of one of history’s most celebrated scientists, Marie Noëlle’s stellar drama depicts the challenges and condescending societal attitudes faced by a woman in a male-dominated field. Noëlle gained access to the Nobel winner’s original diaries (which still bear traces of radiation) in preparation for the film. The result is an impressionistic biopic that draws the T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL Mister Universo viewer into Curie’s subjective experiences through painterly cinematography, sumptuous period design, and an exquisite original score. Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel / Austria, Italy / 2016 / 90 min When a cherished childhood lucky charm is stolen, a young lion tamer must leave his circus behind and travel the back roads of Italy, looking for the strongman who gave it to him so many years ago in the hope that he can make him another. This SUNDAY / APRIL 9 / 3:00 PM / SFMOMA captivating docudrama from Italy evokes the spirits of Fellini and De Sica as it revels in small wonders both under and outside the big top. WEDNESDAY / APRIL 12 / 9:00 PM / YBCA

Partnering with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the post-screening conversation following Marie Curie on April 9 will focus on women in science FRIDAY / APRIL 14 / 6:30 PM / BAMPFA and how the situation has changed for them (or, in some cases, unfortunately SUNDAY / APRIL 16 / 6:00 PM / ALAMO stayed the same) in male-dominated fields. Special guests to be announced TUESDAY / APRIL 18 / 4:00 PM / ROXIE at sffilm.org/festival. 40 doc Motherland Next Skin Ramona S. Diaz / USA, Philippines / 2017 / 94 min Isaki Lacuesta, Isa Campo / Spain, Switzerland / 2016 / 103 min A maternity hospital in Manila, Philippines, one of the busiest in the world, bursts at Costarring Sergi López and Julieta’s Emma Suárez, and gorgeously set in the the seams with the chaos of new life, as cameras capture the shock of childbirth, the Spanish Pyrenees, this tense and sexy exploration of identity and small-town exhaustion of new motherhood, the discomforts of poverty, and the valiant efforts by suspicions concerns 17-year-old Léo (Àlex Monner, in a rich and beguiling hospital staff and loving family in the face of uncertain futures. But what Ramona S. performance), who returns to his village eight years after a fatal accident that took Diaz and crew capture is not at all a sight of pity, it’s a refreshing ode to resilience the life of his father. Welcomed with open arms by his mother, others suspect he is that signals a rebirth of the cinema vérité enterprise itself. not who he claims to be.

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The Paris Opera People You May Know Jean-Stéphane Bron / France, Switzerland / 2017 / 110 min Sherwin Shilati / USA / 2017 / 91 min In the wake of the November 2015 terrorist attacks, the legendary Paris Opera Jed is a work-from-home photo editor who has never been on social media until he has several shows to mount and numerous difficulties to face. Featuring multiple meets a young woman who approaches him with an experiment: allow her to brand storylines, including labor disputes, live bulls, and charming Russians, this expertly him and make him into someone that everyone wants to know. In Sherwin Shilati’s crafted and brilliantly entertaining documentary demonstrates how the show timely debut drama, Twitter wars, Instagram hashtags, and viral photos become manages to still go on. ways to connect, but Jed’s past and his life online eventually have to catch up to one another. TICKETS AT SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT

FRIDAY / APRIL 7 / 6:00 PM / DOLBY FRIDAY / APRIL 7 / 8:30 PM / SFMOMA SATURDAY / APRIL 8 / 1:30 PM / BAMPFA MONDAY / APRIL 10 / 1:30 PM / ROXIE SUNDAY / APRIL 9 / 1:00 PM / ROXIE doc 41 Score: A Film Music Documentary The Stopover Matt Schrader / USA / 2016 / 93 min Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin / France, Greece / 2016 / 102 min It’s such a given that it is almost elemental: motion pictures and musical A planeful of French soldiers finishing a tour in Afghanistan are flown to the island accompaniment complete each other. This comprehensive and relentlessly of Cyprus for a three-day recuperative stint of “sport, relaxation, and collective fascinating documentary traces the history of film scores, from the flame-thrower debriefing.” For longtime friends Aurore and Marine and their cohorts, this exercise guitars of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) to the toy store pianos of Mark Mothesrbaugh’s in compulsory decompression—complete with “therapeutic” virtual reality—has television work and everything in between. It’s a social history of the most crucial mixed results, as a frightening undercurrent of resentment and hostility bubbles up post-production component, a testimony to its power, and an invaluable snapshot of among the more volatile soldiers in the unit. the working methods of today’s top film composers.

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TICKETS A T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL The Student The Untamed Kirill Serebrennikov / Russia / 2016 / 118 min Amat Escalante / Mexico, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland / 2016 / 100 min With visual and verbal verve, The Student tells the story of Venya, a high school Ángel exerts grim control over his wife, while conducting an affair with her brother— student who wields his worn copy of the Bible like a hammer to use against his until a mysterious stranger reveals an otherworldly being that changes their lives mom, teachers, and peers. Serebrennikov offers a potent story of bullying behavior forever. This meditation on pleasure and destruction is a sensual, erotic, and often where the antagonist gains more and more power as almost everyone around him bizarre adventure not soon forgotten. refuses confrontation.

THURSDAY / APRIL 6 / 3:30 PM / ROXIE SUNDAY / APRIL 16 / 8:00 PM / ROXIE SUNDAY / APRIL 16 / 5:30 PM / YBCA WEDNESDAY / APRIL 19 / 6:00 PM / VICTORIA TUESDAY / APRIL 18 / 9:00 PM / VICTORIA 42 The Wedding Plan Rama Burshtein / Israel / 2016 / 110 min When Michal’s fiancé says he no longer loves her, she decides that rather than call off the wedding, she will just find another groom. Marrying romantic comedy with golden the traditions of Orthodox Judaism as she did with her prize-winning debut feature Fill the Void (Festival 2013), director Rama Burshtein creates a film bursting with insight, humor, and compassion. gate award SUNDAY / APRIL 16 / 7:30 PM / VICTORIA WEDNESDAY / APRIL 18 / 6:00 PM / VICTORIA competitions GLOBAL VISIONS Presented at the Festival since its inaugural

year in 1957, the GGAs are among the most

The Winter significant awards for emerging global Emiliano Torres / Argentina / France / 2016 / 93 min In Emiliano Torres’s observant, measured feature debut, the onset of winter affects both the aging foreman of a hardscrabble Patagonian sheep ranch and the younger film artists in the United States. Prizes man who comes to work for the season. Austerely set against the strata of sky and scrub brush in cinematographer Ramiro Civita’s stark widescreen vistas, Torres’s tale never loses sight of its human struggle between two very different men. will be awarded in eight narrative, TICKETS AT SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT documentary, and short film categories. FRIDAY / APRIL 14 / 8:30 PM / ALAMO SATURDAY / APRIL 15 / 6:30 PM / BAMPFA new directors new directors 43 Duet Everything Else Navid Danesh / Iran / 2016 / 103 min Natalia Almada / Mexico, USA, France / 2016 / 98 min After a Tehran musician instigates an encounter with his college girlfriend in an Academy Award-nominee Adriana Barraza (Babel, 2006) gives a masterfully attempt to address the poor end their relationship suffered, their lives and the controlled performance as Doña Flor, a solitary bureaucrat whose lifelong GOLDEN GATE AWARD COMPETITIONS equilibrium of their spouses are thrown into crisis. Navid Danesh’s resonant and service in a government office has left her markedly unsympathetic towards her moving depiction of the impact the past has on the present lives of its protagonists is clients. Shot with an attentive and deeply empathetic lens, documentarian Natalia both culturally specific and universal in its reach. Almada’s narrative debut is a starkly intimate portrait of a woman at odds with her life who may still have a chance to escape her isolation.

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new directors new directors T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL God’s Own Country Godless Francis Lee / UK / 2017 / 105 min Ralitza Petrova / Bulgaria, Denmark, France / 2016 / 99 min Filmed on the Yorkshire hillside where he grew up, Francis Lee’s debut feature tells In post-Communist era Bulgaria, where the shadow of oppression drives selfish the rich and sexy story of John Saxby, a hard-drinking lad who keeps his emotions behavior and hidden economies, outwardly impassive Gana works as a home care in check until an irrepressible Romanian immigrant comes to help out on the family nurse—a job which provides ample opportunity to supplement her income with farm and upends the young man’s life. Full of gloriously captured details about the stolen ID cards, and to maintain the morphine habit she shares with her boyfriend. care and breeding of animals, God’s Own Country is one of the year’s most moving When Gana’s actions threaten the one glimmer of hope in her fatalistic world, will romantic dramas. she break the cycle of corruption or spiral deeper? Godless is a bold first feature from Ralitza Petrova.

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The Human Surge Life After Life Eduardo Williams / Argentina, Brazil, Portugal / 2016 / 97 min Zhang Hanyi / China / 2016 / 80 min Eduardo Williams has steadily made a name for himself with a series of indelible As the inexorable progress of industrialization in China makes its way into the lives shorts featuring young protagonists adrift in strange environments. In his debut of village residents Mingchun and his son Leilei, a surprise haunting by Leilei’s feature, a prizewinner at Locarno, he takes the premise further, crafting a dreamlike dead mother, who has an impassioned plea for her husband, points to a time when three-part drama where youths from Argentina, Mozambique, and the Philippines more attention was paid to the earth and its bounty. Produced by Jia Zhangke, this are connected by invisible, electronic, or even subterranean means. Consistently evocative and poetic debut depicts a rapidly disappearing way of life with a gorgeous inventive, The Human Surge burrows into three continents and finds surprising visual sensibility and a subtly wry humor. associations. TICKETS AT SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT

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documentaries documentaries launch T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL Brimstone & Glory The Cage Fighter Viktor Jakovleski / USA / 2017 / 64 min Jeff Unay / USA / 2017 / 82 min Burning Man has nothing on Tultepec’s charging toritos and exploding castillos. With the emotional force and power of a Bruce Springsteen song, Jeff Unay’s cinema Mexico’s weeklong National Pyrotechnic Festival is sheer unbridled madness. Scars vérité portrait of Joe Carman packs an emotional wallop. A family man who has that tourists take away from fireworks-exploding bulls and towering infernos are promised not to return to competitive mixed martial arts fighting, the dangerous earned with pleasure, apparently, as this dynamic documentary keeps explanation sport that gives him the most complete sense of purpose he’s been able to find, Joe to a minimum while maximizing the experiential through GoPro camera POVs risks everything for one more chance in the ring. and gorgeous abstractions. Filmmaker Viktor Jakovleski has created a visually rapturous, immersive, sensory experience of this extraordinary event, capturing the danger and mayhem in all its glory.

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Donkeyote The Force Chico Pereira / Spain, Germany, Scotland / 2017 / 86 min Peter Nicks / USA / 2016 / 93 min A Spanish man’s quest to defy barriers and borders in search of the American West For the powerful second film in his trilogy concerning the relationship between public by planning a journey on the Trail of Tears with his donkey by his side is its own institutions and the communities they serve, Pete Nicks (The Waiting Room) takes a quixotic trail of laughter and tears. The understanding between man and animal powerful, immersive look at the Oakland Police Department. Filming from 2014- has rarely been so intimately conveyed as it is in Chico Pereira’s winning tale, a 2016 with astonishing access, Nicks captures a particularly turbulent time in Bay stunningly photographed film that hovers between documentary and fiction, one Area law enforcement history. Intended as a catalyst for conversation and change, inspired and performed by a real-life character with outsized dreams. Nicks’ empathetic and observational style avoids easy generalizations and upends expectations, resulting in a rich, thought provoking real-time conversation about social justice and the mutual responsibilities of police officers and those they serve and protect. TICKETS AT SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT

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Matsumura struggles to restore his life in the radioactive red zone, wandering intimate portrait of a year at Headfort boarding school in picturesque Kells, Ireland. GOLDEN GATE AWARD COMPETITIONS through a dystopian nightmare of concrete ruins; abandoned facilities; contamination Following devoted and wryly funny educators John and Amanda Leyden as they cleanup crews; and the haunting fragments of a city swept away by tsunami. With battle through another season of Latin, Shakespeare, and kids playing “Wild Thing,” minimal commentary and a graceful eye, Half-Life in Fukushima underlines the In Loco Parentis shows how the level of attention and concern the teachers have for danger in nuclear power in its depiction of Fukushima’s remnants and Matsumura’s their students lead to remarkable transformations in everyone’s lives. lonely last stand. Screens with Valentina (17 min), a compassionate and softly magical short about an old couple and their goats.

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TRT 88 min SHORTS LIST This compilation of narrative and documentary shorts And the Whole Sky Fit in showcases expertly crafted visual storytelling from around the Dead Cow’s Eye the world. Each film offers its own insight into a wide range A Brief History of Princess X of subjects and locales—from a young bride’s wedding in The Convention Armenia to a family excursion in the Florida Everglades to an Gut Hack unconventional convention in Washington—in ways that are The Rabbit Hunt (pictured) 48 surprising, captivating, and provocative. Real Artists Red Apples

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TRT 92 min SHORTS LIST A masked man robs a bank, a community of Bay Area artists American Paradise (pictured) tries to keep their building from being condemned, and a pair of Balloonfest travelers converse about the challenges of modern technology Break of Day in the midst of natural splendors. This collection of narrative Happy Birthday Mario Woods and documentary shorts will take viewers on a journey from In the Wake of Ghost Ship TE AWARD COMPETITIONS TE AWARD humor to despair, as the protagonists walk their own paths Meaningless Conversations in toward revelation. Beautiful Environments Univitellin GOLDEN GA

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TRT 75 min SHORTS LIST Pajamas that can talk. Bears that summersault. Hot dogs Broken – The Women’s Prison that take the place of fingers. Only in animation can the at Hoheneck unreal become delightfully fathomable and often the most Edge of Alchemy (pictured) lifelike. These inventive and touching animated works imagine Everything worlds that could never exist, draw from memories that do, The History of Magic: Ensueño and capture joy and sadness while each using a different and Hot Dog Hands sophisticated technique. Second to None Summer Camp Island Victor & Isolina TICKETS AT SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT

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TRT 73 min SHORTS LIST In this presentation of new experimental film and video works, a Bloopers hunt in the high grass of Brazil, a trip through a Maroon village If I Were Any Further Away in Jamaica, and front-row tickets to a water show are just some I’d Be Closer to Home of the places seen. From different parts of the world, these films’ It Is What It Is formal audacity are connected through observations of place and Kindah larger questions of identity, authenticity, and playfulness that There Is Land! arise from these locales. Turtles Are Always Home (pictured) 49 The Watershow Extravaganza

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TRT 65 min SHORTS LIST The smallest members of your family, the young at heart, and Father and Daughter everyone in between will find something to love in this exciting The Inspector and the Umbrella lineup of films. This eclectic collection has the power to Lou connect us with storytellers in far-off destinations, from China Pearl and South Africa to our own backyard. Works from emerging Perched (pictured) filmmakers are placed alongside those by veteran artists, Scrap Dolls including Oscar-winner Patrick Osborne, Festival alum Julia Summer Camp Island Pott, and Pixar Animation Studios, here presenting its latest Valley of a Thousand Hills work. Recommended for ages 5 and up.

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SATURDAY / APRIL 8 / 12:30 PM / ROXIE By the Time It Gets Dark Anocha Suwichakornpong / Thailand, France, Netherlands, Qatar / 2016 / 105 min Seeded by a historical event—the Thammasat University massacre of 1976, in which student protesters were murdered by Thai government forces—this elliptical, bewitching film unfurls like a mutant growth from the compost of the past. As a film director interviews a former activist in preparation for a movie, the self-reflexive scenario refracts until not only the narrative structure but the structure of the image itself breaks down.

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Featuring experimental work from emerging

artists and explorations of form by established film

pioneers, Vanguard probes the limits of cinematic The Death of Louis XIV Albert Serra / France, Portugal, Spain / 2016 / 115 min expression and shows us something new. In Albert Serra’s masterful The Death of Louis XIV we are a guest in the bedchamber of King Louis (Jean-Pierre Léaud) where, among his loyal servants, all energy and concern is devoted to the King on his deathbed. In the room, Serra presents a painstaking observation of royalty, with devotional attention to the specific, that hovers between the somber reality of death and the humor that lies in the details.

THURSDAY / APRIL 6 / 8:30 PM / BAMPFA SATURDAY / APRIL 8 / 8:30 PM / YBCA WEDNESDAY / APRIL 12 / 1:30 PM / YBCA doc 51 El Mar La Mar Joshua Bonnetta, J.P. Sniadecki / USA / 2017 / 94 min “You don’t get lost because you can’t see, you get lost because you don’t know where you are.” Weaving breathtaking 16mm footage of land and sky of the Sonoran Desert and eerie off-camera interviews, filmmakers Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki (The Iron Ministry, Festival 2015) capture the desperation and haunting beauty that this exposed land between Mexico and the United States has come to represent.

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Who Cares. Who Sees: Experimental Shorts

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How we see others and understand them is explored through six poetic films: three TICKETS A portraits—of a geologist, of the Andes, and of “anyone” or “nobody”; an homage to Robert Frank’s photographs in The Americans; a collage featuring photos of a Masonic doc order; and a consideration of communication between dogs, humans, and computers. New films by Janie Geiser, Christoph Giradet and Matthias Müller, Adam Levine and Sara Smith, Brigid McCaffrey, Jesse McLean, and Madi Piller. T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL World Without End (No Reported Incidents) Jem Cohen / USA / 2016 / 57 min The poetic, political imagery that has made Jem Cohen an iconoclastic American SHORTS LIST: treasure is on full display in his recent work. World Without End (No Reported Untitled, 1925 Part Three Incidents), a portrait of Southend-on-Sea, a working-class British resort town near You Got Eyes London gently leads us into a forgotten Britain where the unspoken specter of Brexit Bad mama, who cares looms over all. Cohen tackles Donald Trump’s inauguration in Birth of a Nation Flowers of the Sky (pictured) (10 min) and observes a changing New York in Bury Me Not (10 min). personne See a Dog, Hear a Dog

THURSDAY / APRIL 6 / 6:30 PM / BAMPFA SATURDAY / APRIL 8 / 8:30 PM / BAMPFA FRIDAY / APRIL 7 / 6:00 PM / YBCA MONDAY / APRIL 10 / 6:30 PM / ROXIE SUNDAY / APRIL 16 / 1:00 PM / ROXIE Headshot Kimo Stamboel, Timo Tjahjanto / Indonesia / 2016 / 117 min Unveiling a twisting plot alongside some of the most visceral martial arts sequences in recent cinema, Headshot tells the story of an amnesiac named Ishmael (played by Indonesian martial arts master Iko Uwais (The Raid)) trying to piece together his history while being pursued by an insanely wicked crime kingpin who has full knowledge of Ishmael’s past and a vested interest in curtailing his future.

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thrills, chills, and laughs for Festival-goers Mrs K Ho Yuhang / Malaysia, Hong Kong / 2016 / 97 min interested in the darker side of world cinema. Kara Wai, known in her younger days as a Shaw Brothers Studio kung-fu master, returns to kick some bad-guy butt as the titular hero of Ho Yuhang’s action-packed extravaganza with Spaghetti Western leanings. She plays a mild- mannered housewife with a dark and perhaps criminal past that she has tried to keep hidden from her family. Superstar Simon Yam plays the revenge-seeking madman on her trail.

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From directors (Peter Bogdanovich, Guillermo del Toro) to editors (Walter Murch), composers (Danny Elfman) to actors (Elijah Wood, Jamie Lee Curtis), the film’s interviews reveal how 78 set-ups and 52 cuts can add up to what is arguably the most influential scene in cinema.

SATURDAY / APRIL 8 / 10:00 PM / ROXIE MONDAY / APRIL 10 / 8:45 PM / YBCA DARK WAVE TICKETS A T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL The Transfiguration Michael O’Shea / USA / 2016 / 97 min Combining gritty urban realism with vampire movie name checks galore, The Transfiguration (selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard) tells the story of a PHOTO CREDITS teenage loner with a problem—he has a thirst for blood—and the slightly older

girl who befriends him. Atmospheric and rich in character, the film references Andy Goldsworthy Wood Line photo courtesy of Jay Graham and the Presidio Trust; Ethan Hawke vampire classics like Martin (1978) and Let the Right One In (2008) while presenting portrait courtesy of Sam Jones; Golden Exits still courtesy of Sean Price Williams; John Ridley an emotionally rich story of two youngsters trying to help one another with their portrait courtesy of Ryder Sloane; Pamela Gentile Leica Store Gallery exhibition still by Pamela respective demons. Gentile; Parallel Spaces musician portraits courtesy of Ryo Mitamura; Stacey Steers installation photo courtesy of Catharine Clarke Gallery.

FRIDAY / APRIL 7 / 11:00 PM / ROXIE Lynn Hershman Leeson YBCA exhibition still: Lynn Hershman Leeson, Seduction from the series SUNDAY / APRIL 9 / 8:15 PM / BAMPFA Phantom Limb, 1985, b/w photograph. Courtesy Lynn Hershman Leeson represented by Anglim MONDAY / APRIL 17 / 5:30 PM / ALAMO Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco; Waldburger Wouters Gallery, Brussels; Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York City; Vilma Gold Gallery, London. cinema by the bay spotlight

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Our annual Cinema by the Bay spotlight features exceptional new work made in and about the Bay Argentina: A National Area. On the occasion of the Festival’s 60th anniversary, we are proud to honor local visionaries who Cinema in Movement helped establish the Bay Area as a vital and innovative region for film production and exhibition. It is difficult to think through the current state of Argentine cinema to try to find CINEMA BY THE BAY TITLES elements that connect the films with one another. Unlike what happened in After Life (Shorts 6, p. 49) A Tribute to Gordon Gund: the 1960s and 1990s, when, despite American Paradise (Shorts 2, p. 48) The Illumination (p. 15)

SPOTLIGHTS & INITIATIVES SPOTLIGHTS differences, it was possible to speak of Asian Dub Foundation, live score of In the Wake of Ghost Ship (Shorts 2, p. 48) “generations” and “new” cinemas, today George Lucas’s THX 1138 (p. 11) It Is What It Is (Shorts 4, p. 49) in Argentine cinema a sort of chaos Bill Nye: Science Guy (p. 25) Lou (Shorts 5, p. 49) reigns, revealing a vitality and variety The Boombox Collection: Zion I The Missing Part of Me (Shorts 6, p. 49) not easily experienced in the cinemas of (screens with Defender, p. 20) Mel Novikoff Award: other countries. Though the four films in Brown Penny (Shorts 6, p. 49) Tom Luddy: A Long Happy Life (p. 13) this year’s World Cinema Spotlight share Canyon Cinema 50: Guy Maddin Presents More THINGS in Films (p. 12) certain themes—moving away from the Blondino and Other Delights (p. 18) Parallel Spaces: Will Oldham and home, facing job uncertainty, the not Citizen Kane with William R. Hearst III (p. 17) Jerome Hiler (p. 11) always healthy advances of progress— Defender (p. 20) Pearl (Shorts 5, p. 49) they are themselves a demonstration Discreet (p. 32) Persistence of Vision Award: and an affirmation of that diversity. Disposable Film Festival Lynn Hershman Leeson: Tania Libre (p. 14) We probably ought not to speak of a 10th Anniversary (p. 18) Rapid Transit (Shorts 6, p. 49) generation, though we certainly can of Dolores (p. 27) Real Artists (Shorts 1, p. 48) movement—lots of movement. Everything Else (p. 43) Scared Very Scared The Force (p. 46) (screens with Discreet, p. 32) George Gund Award: Serenade for Haiti (p. 47) WORLD CINEMA Eleanor Coppola: Paris Can Wait (p. 14) Two or Three Things That Frighten Me in SPOTLIGHT TITLES The Green Fog – Vertigo: David Thomson Master Class (p. 21) TICKETS AT SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL TICKETS AT A San Francisco Fantasia (p. 10) Valentina The Future Perfect (p. 33) Gut Hack (Shorts 1, p. 48) (screens with Half-Life in Fukushima, p. 47) Hermia & Helena (p. 33, pictured) Happy Birthday Mario Woods Walking Out (p. 30) The Human Surge (p. 44) (Shorts 2, p. 48, pictured) The Winter (p. 42) spotlight spotlight

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Contemporary French Cinema Innovative Storytelling

Each year, it is the great pleasure of the Festival to collaborate with OneFifty is a bold new initiative from Time Warner—home to HBO, the French American Cultural Society in an effort to bring the very Turner, and Warner Bros.—that seeks to curate untold stories from best French and French-language films to Bay Area audiences. This artists with fresh voices by developing and investing early in original year’s program features a wealth of contemporary French stories from content that resonates with diverse global audiences. established and emerging voices in international cinema. The partnership between SFFILM and OneFifty reflects our shared Hailing from a variety of Festival sections, these ten films are remarkably values in the stories we support and the artists we champion. This diverse in style and subject, demonstrating the output and growth of one spotlight strives to elevate innovative films and celebrate unique artistic

of the leading artistic and cultural capitals of the world. perspectives with fans of the SFFILM Festival. Together we hope to TICKETS A connect with this vibrant filmmaking community to inspire the creation CONTEMPORARY FRENCH of more original content and amplify the global voices behind them. CINEMA TITLES INNOVATIVE STORYTELLING TITLES The Challenge (p. 46) The Paris Opera (p. 40) T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL The Death of Louis XIV (p. 50) The Stopover (p. 41) Heal the Living (p. 53) Story of a 3-Day Pass (50th American Paradise The Convention Heaven Sent (p. 44) Anniversary Screening) (p. 23) (Shorts 2, p. 48) (Shorts 1, p. 48) Marie Curie. The Courage of The Unknown Girl (p. 24) And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dolores (p. 27) Knowledge (p. 39) Cow’s Eye (Shorts 1, p. 48) Second to None Nocturama (p. 23, pictured) A Brief History of Princess X (Shorts 3, p. 48, pictured) (Shorts 1, p. 48) Summer Camp Island (Shorts 3, p. 48)

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Launch Science on Screen Goldsworthy in the Presidio: A Special Day of SFFILM is dedicated to championing In partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation— Free Activities exceptional and innovative films and the nation’s leading philanthropic grantor for filmmakers. The SFFILM Festival’s new Launch science and the arts—SFFILM launched a Presidio of San Francisco initiative is an organic extension of our year- major new initiative in 2015 to enhance public April 8 round Artist Development programs, which understanding of science through the language of support filmmakers at all stages of production film. The Sloan Science in Cinema initiative includes Andy Goldsworthy draws inspiration from through significant financial and creative four interconnected programs—fellowships, place and creates art from the materials resources. With Launch, SFFILM now brings screenwriter workshops, awards, and exhibition he finds close at hand—twigs, leaves, the same level of care and assistance to a select opportunities—that elevate filmmakers who tackle stones, felled trees. The Presidio is home number of films as they begin their journeys scientific or technological themes. to the largest collection of his work in North on the Festival circuit. The five titles featured America, including the wondrous Spire in Launch—found among a variety of Festival At this year’s Festival, SFFILM is thrilled to (2008), Wood Line (2011), Tree Fall (2013),

SPOTLIGHTS & INITIATIVES SPOTLIGHTS sections—are making their debuts to the film highlight compelling cinema that tells the story and Earth Wall (2014). On April 8, SFFILM industry along with the Festival’s discerning of science. We hope not only to engage members is proud to partner with the Presidio audiences. We are proud to elevate these films, of the scientific community, but also to inspire Trust and the FOR-SITE Foundation

and we are confident that the SFFILM Festival those Festival attendees who are not scientists for a special day of free public events will be a first stop on a long future of exhibition. or engineers. Both the Sloan Foundation and highlighting Goldsworthy’s remarkable SFFILM believe that filmmakers have the power work. Learn more and register for tours at LAUNCH TITLES to immerse audiences in the challenges and www.presidio.gov/events. rewards of scientific discovery while illuminating The Cage Fighter (p. 45) the intersections between science, technology, This year’s Festival also features the world The House of Tomorrow (p. 44) and our daily lives. premiere of Thomas Riedelsheimer’s Leaning into the Wind (p. 22, pictured) Leaning Into the Wind (see p. 22) and a Muhi — Generally Temporary (p. 47) SCIENCE ON SCREEN TITLES special free 15th anniversary screening of People You May Know (p. 40) Riedelsheimer’s Rivers & Tides (see p. 20). The House of Tomorrow (p. 44) Both films detail Goldsworthy’s life and work. Marie Curie. The Courage of Knowledge (p. 39, pictured) Marjorie Prime (p. 29)

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Stacey Steers: Lynn Hershman Leeson: Pamela Gentile: Edge of Alchemy Civic Radar Portrait of a Film Festival FINE ART & THE FESTIVAL Catharine Clark Gallery Yerba Buena Center for the Arts The Gallery at Leica Store San Francisco On view through April 15 On view through May 21 On view through May 31

Stacey Steers is known for her process- A pioneer of performance and conceptual Join SFFILM and the Gallery at Leica Store driven, labor-intensive animated films art, Lynn Hershman Leeson has continually San Francisco as we celebrate San Francisco composed of thousands of handmade works examined our relationship to technology. Lynn International Film Festival photographer on paper. A Creative Capital project funded Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar provides an Pamela Gentile with an exhibition of her work through additional support from the John S. overview of the Bay Area artist’s revolutionary chronicling the Festival’s films, filmmakers, Guggenheim Foundation, Edge of Alchemy career from the 1960s to the present day. and signature events for the past three concludes a trilogy of films by Steers that With a focus on investigations of identity and decades. On display will be Gentile’s masterful, examines the psychological terrain of women’s the relationship between the viewer and intimate photographs of the directors, actors, inner worlds. The artist assembled over 6,000 various modes of surveillance, this survey also and film craftspeople that have been honored photo collages to create the film, which will captures Hershman Leeson’s contributions to guests of the Festival over the years, as well as be on view at Catharine Clarke Gallery along the field of performance and her commitment the quiet behind-the-scenes moments that she with handworked collages made by Steers and to socially engaged practices. captures between screenings. TICKETS A a suite of prints and sculptural objects that incorporate media from the film. Hershman Leeson will be screening her new To learn more about the exhibition, which film Tania Libre and receiving the Festival’s opens on April 5, visit www.leicastoresf.com. Edge of Alchemy will also be screening in the Persistence of Vision Award. Find program Festival’s Shorts 3: Animation. Find program details on p. 14. T SFFILM.ORG/FESTIVAL details on p. 48.

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