FILMS
- Bad Company
Eduardo Aliverti, Pablo Milstein and Javier Rubel's Bad Company is an unsettling, trenchant documentary about Argentina's Dirty War and the legacy of one of the most brutal waves of repression, more...
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- Eduardo Aliverti, Javier Rubel, Pablo Milstein
- Argentina
- 1996
- Bad Hair
In a Caracas tenement high-rise, Marta (Samantha Castillo) is raising two children alone, their father long gone and her security-job employment recently terminated. Broke and desperate, her frustrati more...
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- Mariana Rondón
- Venezuela/Peru
- 2013
- Bad Reputation
Joan Jett has been called the Godmother of Punk, a fitting name for the kick-ass frontwoman of Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, who has been playing guitar since the age of 14. With archival footage, cand more...
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- Kevin Kerslake
- USA
- 2017
- Bad Timing
Nicolas Roeg’s fifth feature has been somewhat retitled for its American release (Bad Timing/A Sensual Obsession) but this does not entirely clarify the substance of this complex, oddly distu more...
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- Nicolas Roeg
- England
- Badis
The condition of women seems like a burning topic for male filmmakers from Africa (see also in this catalog Finzan; Dancing in the Dust) and North Africa with Badis. Mohamed A. Ta more...
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- Mohamed A. Tazi
- Morocco
- 1989
- Badou Boy
“One has to choose between engaging in stylistic research or the mere recoding of facts. I feel that a filmmaker must go beyond recording facts.” Mambéty’s first—and rarely shown—short work more...
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- Djibril Diop Mambéty
- Senegal
- 1970
- A Bag of Sweets
This charming animated film lets us listen in on the conversation of two furry friends as they discuss the afterlife during a get-together in a park over some coffee and a bag of sweets. —Keith Z more...
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- Matthias Bruhn
- Germany
- 2005
- Bagdad Cafe
West German filmmaker Percy Adlon was introduced to American audiences with the Festival's 1981 screening of Celeste and all his subsequent work have graced our events: Five Last Days (1 more...
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- Percy Adlon
- West Germany
- 1987
- Baise-Moi
Banned in France (yes, it can happen even today) and censored in Britain, created by a porn actress and the novelist whose bestseller it’s based on, this has been the cause célêbre of the y more...
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- Virginie Despentes
- France
- 2000
- Baked Together
A snapshot of the filmmaker’s grandparents’ 61-year marriage—a film made for those who can only stand each other for so long.... —Maïa Cybelle Carpenter more...
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- Susanne Schulz
- Germany
- 2003
- The Balance
This is one of the best films yet on marriage and personal responsibility and it reaffirms Krzysztof Zanussi as Poland’s leading director. Unlike in Family Life and Illumination, this more...
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- Krzysztof Zanussi
- Poland
- Bald-Dog Rock
Not just a Magyar version of This Is Spinal Tap but a powerful expression of working-class frustration, this raunchy (pseudo) rockumentary unfolds against a bleak, beer-sodden world of geeky vi more...
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- György Szomjas
- Hungary
- 1981
- Ball Players
A whimsical monologue that equates contemporary infidelity with “free agents” from the big leagues. more...
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- Chip Lord
- USA
- The Ball
A hilarious and politically charged send-up of Jane Campion’s The Piano. —Maïa Cybelle Carpenter more...
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- Anny Slater
- Australia
- 2003
- Ballad of a Soldier
A lyrical exposition of love arrives from Soviet Russia in its Ballad of a Soldier—the film honored with a Best Participation award at the Cannes Film Festival. Three elements of love receive more...
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- Grigori Chukhrai
- Russia
- 1959
- Ballad of Crowfoot
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- Willie Dunn
- Canada
- The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
After many inventive short works, Marie Losier’s first feature film is an intimate and poignant portrait of Genesis P-Orridge, the industrial music, performance art and body mod pioneer (and onetime more...
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- Marie Losier
- USA
- 2011
- Ballad of Intimacy
A woman shivers in a darkened room, singing to a man’s love song on the radio. more...
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- Shirin Neshat
- USA
- 2001
- A Ballad of Love
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- Mikhail Bogin
- USSR
- Ballast
A man, a woman and a child battle each other and themselves in the aftermath of a tragic death. Unfolding in the Mississippi Delta with a cast of nonprofessional actors, Ballast is a story of t more...
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- Lance Hammer
- USA
- 2007
- Ballerina
Alfred Hitchcock dreamed of remaking this legendary work, lost for decades, which features three of the greatest stars of the Paris ballet world of the 1930s—Yvette Chauviré, Janine Charrat and Mia more...
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- Jean Benoït-Lévy
- France
- 1937
- Ballet Adagio
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- Norman McLaren
- Canada
- Ballet Mécanique
Acclaimed composer and guitarist Tom Verlaine adapts his disciplined improvisational energy and lyrical guitar skills to cinema, performing his new original scores for silent film classics as poetic a more...
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- Fernand Leger
- France
- 1924
- Ballet Robotique
Giant robots perform computerized dances. more...
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- Bob Rogers
- USA
- 1982
- The Balloon
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- Girish Vaidya
- India
- Balloons and Spinifex
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- Australia
- Bamako
Set in the Malian capital of its title, Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako centers on a show trial in which the plaintiff, “African society,” argues against exploitation by the defendant, the Wo more...
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- Abderrahmane Sissako
- Mali/France/USA
- 2006
- Bambi
Disney's last feature-length animated film before the outbreak of the Second World War concluded the great quartet of films in which the possibility of narrative through film drawings—the movement f more...
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- Walt Disney
- USA
- 1942
- The Bandit
An exuberant, surprisingly moving romp through 1970s pop culture, The Bandit celebrates the friendship between superstar actor Burt Reynolds and stuntman-turned-director Hal Needham, more...
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- Jesse Moss
- USA
- 2016
- Bandits
What happens to the “escape from prison” genre when the gender of the inmates is changed from male to female? What happens if you stretch the prison genre to throw in the “rise of the rock band more...
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- Katja von Garnier
- Germany
- 1997
- Bank of Life
A short that shows that a human being can get used to unfavorable living conditions. more...
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- Momir Matovic
- Yugoslavia
- 1990
- Banking on Disaster
A vitally important look at the destruction of the Amazon rainforest in the Brazilian state of Rondonia. more...
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- Adrian Cowell
- England
- Barbarella
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- Roger Vadim
- France / Italy
- 1968
- Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour
Whether you grew up coveting her Malibu beach house and pink Corvette or shaving her head and forcing her to perform unnatural acts with Skipper, you’ll find something to relate to in Barbie Nati more...
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- Susan Stern
- USA
- 1997
- Barcelona (A Map)
“People never really talk unless they’re dying,” observes one character early on in Barcelona (A Map), Catalan director Ventura Pons’s moody meditation on identity and change, based on more...
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- Ventura Pons
- Spain
- 2007
- Bare Strip
An interlude from an old softcore film is transformed into a reflection on the temporal and spatial confines of the film frame. —Kathy Geritz, Irina Leimbacher more...
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- Luis A. Recoder
- USA
- 1998
- The Barefoot Contessa
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- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- USA
- 1954
- Baron Munchhausen
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- Karel Zeman
- Czechoslovakia
- 1962
- The Baroness and the Pig
It’s 1888, a time when photography and electric lights are new innovations, the Eiffel Tower is rising to the heavens, and Impressionist painters scandalize the decadent Parisian aristocracy. Into t more...
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- Michael Mackenzie
- Canada
- 2002
- Barracks
A small but remarkably cosmopolitan village somewhere in the Urals, between war-ravaged Leningrad and the gulags of Siberia, is the setting of this whirlwind, tragicomic portrayal of Russian provincia more...
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- Valery Ogorodnikov
- Russia
- 1999
- The Barrier
After gaining recognition as an athlete, poet and playwright, Jerzy Skolimowski has now distinguished himself as the most controversial and thought-provoking young director of the Polish cinema. He pe more...
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- Jerzy Skolimowski
- Poland
- 1966
- Barrio
Summer in Madrid. While the noontime news documents the exodus of seashore-bound vacationers, Javi, Manu and Rai are stuck in the city. The three teens prowl Madrid’s outskirts by night, searching f more...
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- Fernando León de Aranoa
- Spain / France / Portugal
- 1998
- Barroco
Anyone who has seen Paul Leduc's beautiful Frida (SFIFF 1986) knows his narrative's impetus flows not from a rigorous allegiance to plot, but rather to mood, a sensual evocation of time and pla more...
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- Paul Leduc
- Spain / Cuba
- 1989
- Barry
After his tour of duty in the Marines, Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) is having a hard time returning to his everyday Midwestern life and suffers from a vague dissatisfaction with his post-military job as more...
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- Bill Hader
- USA
- 2018
- Bartleby
Bilbrough’s interpretation of the Melville story is a wry and brilliantly acted study of conformity and compassion. —Mimi Brody more...
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- Miro Bilbrough
- Australia
- 2000
- Bashing
From Japanese filmmaker Masahiro Kobayashi, Bashing reveals a consequence of war that many Americans may never have fathomed possible. With an initial disclaimer that the film is fiction “loo more...
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- Masahiro Kobayashi
- Japan
- 2005
- Bastard out of Carolina
Following eloquently in her father’s footsteps, Anjelica Huston (Piper-Heidsieck Award recipient, SFIFF 1991) makes a forceful and lasting impression with her directorial debut. Adapted from the bes more...
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- Anjelica Huston
- USA
- 1996
FACTOID #7
Governor Pat Brown welcomed the crowd at Opening Night of the Festival October 30, 1963. Other attendees included George Peppard, Willie Mays and the governor’s wife Bernice; it also happened to be the couple’s 33rd wedding anniversary.
