FILMS
- Carla’s Song
The long, bitter, bloody clash between Sandinista rebels and Contra insurgents in 1980s Nicaragua provides the backdrop for this cross-cultural love story from radical British filmmaker Ken Loach. Geo more...
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- Ken Loach
- England
- 1996
- Carmen
Ann-Sargent Wooster updates Carmen, juxtaposing the forlorn lover with the awkward mating rituals of penguins. more...
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- Ann-Sargent Wooster
- USA
- Carole Laure
Singer-actress Carole Laure interprets a country song, with dancer Louise Cavallier. more...
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- 1993
- Cartography of Ashes
Produced in collaboration with the San Francisco Fire Department with the support of the Exploratorium, Dolissa Medina's Cartography of Ashes marks the 100th anniversary of the 1906 earthquake, more...
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- Dolissa Medina
- USA
- A Case of Rape
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- Boris Sagal
- USA
- Casotto
Let it be said from the outset that Casotto is meant to be a farcical, occasionally surrealistic look at a typical day at Ostia beach, on a typical summer’s day. The word "farce" is emphasize more...
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- Sergio Citti
- Italy
- 1977
- Cast a Dark Shadow
Before becoming a 1960s international art house favorite in the films of Joseph Losey and Luchino Visconti, Dirk Bogarde shot to stardom in England playing sexy, amoral cads in juicy ’50s crime dram more...
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- Lewis Gilbert
- UK
- 1955
- The Castaways
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- USA
- Castelporziano: Ostia dei poeti
Andrea Andermann is among the major documentary filmmakers of Italy, and this particular work has been considered an important study of the mood of young Italians whose repressions might exress themse more...
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- Andrea Andermann
- Italy
- Casting Jon Benet
It's been over 20 years since the murder of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey. But the case is just as fascinating as ever, thanks to its bizarre details—and the fact that it's still unsolve more...
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- Kitty Green
- USA/Australia
- 2016
- Castro Street
A tapestry of industrial rhythms. —Steve Anker more...
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- Bruce Baillie
- USA
- 1966
- Cat and Mouse
Michelle Morgan and Serge Reggiani, two of France’s leading stars since the 1940s, return to the screen in this light romantic murder mystery by Claude Lelouch, famed director of A Man and a Woma more...
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- Claude Lelouch
- France
- 1975
- Cat and Mouse
Gunter Grass' novel, one of postwar Germany's most successful and controversial literary works, has proven to be just as provocative on the screen. It tells the story of Joachim Mahlke, a German high more...
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- Hansjurgen Pohland
- Germany
- A Cat in Paris
An enchanting fable about looking past appearances and cultivating unlikely loyalties in times of need, A Cat in Paris is the first feature-length collaboration by the creative team of Alain Ga more...
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- Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli
- France/Belgium/Netherlands/Switzerland
- 2010
- The Cat Often Comes Back in the Morning
One Step Beyond and The Cat Often Comes Back in the Morning are episodes from the portmanteau feature Fantastic Collection and both splash around in the off-the-wall humor that’ more...
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- Naoto Yamakawa
- Japan
- The Cat Thieves
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- Brazil
- The Cat with Hands
Hands aren’t the only things this cat snatches from passersby. One of the creepiest movies you’ll ever see. —Tod Booth more...
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- Robert Morgan
- England
- 2001
- The Cat
This uproariously funny comedy stars Mariangela Melato and Ugo Tognazzi as a wacky brother and sister who want to sell their tenement building but cannot do so until all the tenants are out. Since the more...
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- Luigi Comencini
- Italy
- Catholic School
Students wax philosophical on life, love and Jesus. —Brian Gordon more...
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- Jona Frank
- USA
- 1998
- Cattle Mutilations
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- George Kuchar
- USA
- Cat’s Cradle
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- Paul Driessen
- Canada
- Caught in the Act
This fascinating and strangely hyper-realistic documentary invites us to witness first-hand what transpires after the Paris police have caught petty criminals red-handed and taken them down to police more...
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- Raymond Depardon
- France
- 1994
- Caught in the Crossfire
A senseless shooting forces a Mission High School class to confront the dangers of their misconceptions about each other. Written by and starring local San Francisco teens, this film paints a realisti more...
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- Alice Ray, Farah Dews
- USA
- 1995
- Cause & Effect
Scenes shift between bizarre and impossible environments as clever and intricate visual effects transport the viewer from one peculiar universe to another. Shot on high definition video and transferre more...
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- Susan Delson
- USA
- Cause & Effect
Scenes shift between bizarre and impossible environments as clever and intricate visual effects transport the viewer from one peculiar universe to another. Shot on high definition video and transferre more...
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- John Sanborn, Mary Perillo
- USA
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams
The surprise resurgence of 3-D has prompted everything from blanket claims that it’s the future of cinema to dismissals that it will again exhaust public patience through indiscriminate application more...
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- Werner Herzog
- USA
- 2010
- Cecil B. De Mille – American Epic
Kevin Brownlow, recipient of this year’s Mel Novikoff Award, and his colleague Patrick Stanbury have crafted many absorbing documentaries on Hollywood throughout the years, but this recent and engag more...
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- Kevin Brownlow
- USA
- 2004
- Ceddo
The cinema of Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène is cast in pageant form, in which the visceral elements of culture, politics and religion clash on an uncluttered stage. In 1977s Ceddo, whic more...
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- Ousmane Sembène
- Senegal
- 1977
- The Ceiling
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- Czechoslovakia
- The Ceiling
An apartment dweller finds it increasingly difficult to put up with the din created by his neighbor, a musician who's seemingly always rehearsing. more...
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- Mathieu Demy
- France
- 2000
- Celebration
A cinematic sketch of California artist Katherine Myers. more...
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- Erik Friedl
- USA
- 1982
- A Celebration of Oddball Films with Marc Capelle’s Red Room Orchestra
Formed by San Francisco producer and multi-instrumentalist in 2017, The Red Room Orchestra is a collective of popular, jazz, classical electronic, composers, and performers who’ve played and record more...
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- Celeste
A discovery. For his first feature film, Percy Adlon, a notable writer and director of German television, describes the last few months in the life of Marcel Proust, as told by his housekeeper-nurse, more...
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- Percy Aldon
- West Germany
- Celestial Clockwork
Fanciful footwork turns the Cinderella story into an immigrant fairy tale as Venezuela-born director Fina Torres applies her cinematic vision to her adopted city of Paris. In the Torres version, a you more...
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- Fina Torres
- Venezuela / France / Belgium
- 1994
- Céline
Well before the supernatural has insinuated itself into the story, Céline evokes the classic outline of fairy tales and folklore: a beautiful princess, grieving for her lost kingdom, is shut u more...
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- Jean-Claude Brisseau
- France
- 1992
- Celso and Cora
Celso and Cora is the first feature film by Australian documentarist Gary Kildea, whose earlier shorts have won him an international reputation. Kildea, who worked with Michael Powell and studi more...
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- Gary Kildea
- Australia
- 1983
- Center of the World
No kissing. Separate rooms. No talk of feelings. Sex only between the hours of 10:00 pm and 2:00 am, but no penetration. Those are the conditions agreed upon by a disenfranchised computer engineer and more...
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- Wayne Wang
- USA
- 2001
- Central Airport THF
Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport ceased operations in 2008, but reopened in 2015 as an emergency refugee camp. Tackling the refugee crisis in a brand-new way, director Karim Aïnouz (Madame Sata, F more...
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- Karim Aïnouz
- Germany/France, Brazil
- 2018
- The Century of the Self
To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, b more...
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- Adam Curtis
- England
- 2003
- The Ceremony
Example of black humor in new cartoon trends. more...
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- Yugoslavia
- A Certain Morning
A man in the bush has a close encounter of the neo-colonialist kind which prompts his son to ask the question that might well be on the lips of many a denizen of such "quaint" African villages: "Papa, more...
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- Fanta Regina Nacro
- Burkina Faso
- 1992
- Cesar’s Last Fast
On August 21, 1988, more than 6,000 supporters, including Reverend Jesse Jackson, actor Martin Sheen and Ethel Kennedy, all waited in rapt attention under a giant white tent, many weeping, as United F more...
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- Richard Ray Perez, Lorena Parlee
- USA
- 2013
- Cet Amour-là
Jeanne Moreau, one of the cinema’s greatest actresses, brings French writer Marguerite Duras, one of the world’s greatest minds, to life in this candid portrait of an extraordinary woman—and of more...
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- Josée Dayan
- France
- 2001
- Chaika
A startlingly bleak yet beautiful film, Chaika somehow manages to sear even as it is set against the brutal, unforgiving cold of the Siberian landscape. Ahysa (Salome Demuria), a beautiful young Kazak more...
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- Miguel Ángel Jiménez Colmenar
- Spain/Georgia, Russia, France
- 2012
- Chained Probabilities
These works use computers and software design as a bridge between traditional media like film and sculpture. Each of these animated works, presenting finely crafted visions and sounds, is an example o more...
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- Toxi
- England/USA
- 2004
FACTOID #217
A sporadic SFIFF tradition, fashion shows are lighthearted affairs that help raise funds for the Festival. In 1968, Oakland designer Richard Tam mounted a show at the Fairmont Hotel that attracted high society; the Examiner commented that the show ’combined Tam’s simple daytime elegance with his almost theatrical evening gowns.’
