60th San Francisco International Film Festival APRIL 5-19, 2017 sff ilm.org Put the Festival in Your Pocket. Get the SFFILM app. The new SFFILM app brings the San Francisco International Film Festival wherever you are. With the app, anyone can browse the app Festival schedule and buy tickets. And SFFILM members can & stream some of the world’s best films, selected by the Festival’s screening programming team, through the SFFILM Screening Room. room Download the SFFILM app from iTunes or Google Play, or go to sffilm.org/watch to start streaming today. SPONSORED by Margaret and Will Hearst welcome 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 SFFILM is a nonprofit charitable organization with a mission to champion the world’s finest films and filmmakers through programs anchored in and inspired by the spirit and values of the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at sffilm.org. Connect with @SFFILM on table title of contents index 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 Casting JonBenet 26 Spotlight & Initiatives 54 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 TICKETS AT 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 TICKETS PACKAGES HOW TO PURCHASE 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.