FILMS
- The Betrayal
An understated thriller, The Betrayal traces the fine ethnic lines among French soldiers stationed in Algeria in 1960. At stake is the fate of four harkis (French soldiers of North Afric more...
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- Philippe Faucon
- France / Belgium
- 2005
- Better This World
Passionate young activists and authorities clash in Minneapolis in events surrounding the protests at the 2008 Republican National Convention. As arrests are made and accusations fly, the truth recede more...
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- Kelly Duane de la Vega, Katie Galloway
- USA
- 2011
- Betty
Her suit is couture and her features are fine, but Betty is bleary drunk, lost and homeless when she washes up at a place called The Hole. There, in exile from the haute bourgeoisie, played with an ex more...
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- Claude Chabrol
- France
- 1992
- Betty Blue Uncut
An Oscar-nominee for best foreign picture in 1986, Betty Blue, as it was originally shown to U.S. and European audiences in its two-hour version, was a complex tale of love, desire and destruct more...
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- Jean-Jacques Beineix
- France
- 1992
- Between Friends
This is the third film by Donald Shebib, who made his stunning directorial debut two years ago with Goin' Down The Road. The “friends” of the title are between more than each other—they a more...
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- Donald Shebib
- Canada
- Between Jobs
When an old man receives an unexpected rainy night visitor, fear and tension give way to cautious revelation. more...
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- John Collier Bennett
- Between Tears and Smiles
The Chinese are fascinated by their history and they are fascinated by love, and the two forces often become involved in the same story. This is such a story, set in the early days of the Chinese Repu more...
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- Lo Chen
- Hong Kong
- Between the Lines
Women practice cutting as a way to ease emotional wounds. —Steve Seid more...
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- Sophia Constantinou
- USA
- 1997
- Between Two Worlds
Against a palpitating backdrop of rebellion, riot and war, this strange and irresistible Sri Lankan tale winds an unpredictable path between myth and reality, war and peace, love and madness. A half-w more...
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- Vimukthi Jayasundara
- Sri Lanka
- 2009
- Beyond Our Ken
Pretty Hong Kong teacher Chan Wai-ching (Gillian Chung) is romanced by handsome firefighter Ken until he dumps her for Mainland waitress Shirley (Tao Hung). When nude photos of Wai-ching appear on the more...
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- Pang Ho-Cheung
- Hong Kong
- 2004
- Beyond the Call
Ed, Jim and Walt are not your average weekend warriors. Ordinary, inconspicuous Americans with wives, careers and hobbies, these three friends realize their deepest passion in life through self-financ more...
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- Adrian Belic
- USA
- 2006
- Beyond the Clouds
A high-altitude look at two British skysurfing dudes. more...
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- Lee Phillips
- England
- 1999
- Beyond the Pale
Top-class television drama, focusing on four middle-aged people on holiday on the North Atrim Coast of Northern Ireland and some long-known "secrets." —Brian Gordon more...
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- Robert Cooper
- Northern Ireland
- Beyond the Wood
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- Poland
- Bicycle Race
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- Poland
- The Big Animal
When a camel turns up in the Sawickis’ front yard, an entire Polish town loses its senses. Perhaps gripped by the delirium of the new capitalism, Mr. Sawicki’s acquaintances propose a batch of mon more...
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- Jerzy Stuhr
- Poland
- 2000
- The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales
The idyllic image of life on the farm has been disrupted in Benjamin Renner (co-director, Ernest & Celestine, Festival 2013) and Patrick Imbert’s delightful hand-drawn creation about a misfit more...
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- Benjamin Renner, Patrick Imbert
- France
- 2017
- The Big Bang and Other Creation Myths
Every culture has its own idea of how the world began, from a really big bang, to a duck’s egg, to the tears of a god. —Tod Booth more...
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- Faith Hubley
- USA
- 1981
- The Big Bang
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- James Toback
- USA
- Big Ben: Ben Webster in Europe
“Film is not life,” observed van der Keuken recently, “but it has to touch your life. It’s a second life.” These four early poetic films reveal the origins of the complex, layered style of more...
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- Johan van der Keuken
- Netherlands
- 1967
- Big Bill Blues
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- Jean Delire
- Belgium
- 1956
- Big Blue Lake
After ten years in England pursuing an acting career, Lai Yee returns to her peaceful village home outside of Hong Kong and is stunned to discover that her mother has Alzheimer’s disease and no one more...
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- Tsang Tsui-Shan
- Hong Kong
- 2011
- The Big Day Off
A remarkably designed short about the dubious benefits of vacation time in the technologized future. —Steve Seid more...
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- David Janssen
- USA
- 1997
- Big Girl
A battle of wills develops between nine-year-old Josephine and her mother’s new boyfriend in this poignant tale of modern family politics. —Audrey Chang more...
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- Renuka Jeyapalan
- Canada
- 2005
- The Big Land
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- USA
- Big Mama
Viola Dees adores her grandson Walter, but at 89 is she the best person to raise him? “Age has nothing to do with love,” declares Viola, aka Big Mama. True, but Walter is even more mercurial than more...
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- Tracy Seretean
- USA
- 2000
- Big Man Japan
Things aren’t going so well for Mr. Daisato (cowriter/director Hitoshi Matsumoto), employee at the Department of Baddie Prevention. Speaking to a documentary film crew about his mundane life, he bem more...
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- Hitoshi Matsumoto
- Japan
- 2007
- The Big Parade
For eight months in 1985, 10,000 Chinese men and women underwent a grueling training program to prepare for a parade celebrating the 35th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. The dril more...
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- Chen Kaige
- China
- 1985
- The Big Snit
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- Richard Condie
- Big Sur
Jean-Marc Barr is a middle-aged, alcoholic Jack Kerouac trying to outrun his demons in Michael Polish's deft adaptation of the writer's 1962 novel. Five years after On the Road transformed the literar more...
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- Michael Polish
- USA
- 2012
- Bilbao
The most controversial film at the Directors Fortnight of the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, Bilbao is the first major work of a young Spanish filmmaker that contains echoes of Buñuel and also ref more...
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- J.J. Bigas Luna
- Spain
- 1978
- Bill Cunningham New York
"We all get dressed for Bill," says Anna Wintour about Bill Cunningham, the 80-year-old photographer and unlikely man-about-town. Bill Cunningham has two weekly columns in the Style section of the more...
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- Richard Press
- USA
- 2010
- Bill Nye: Science Guy
The effortlessly charming, bow-tie sporting Bill Nye is beloved by all generations who grew up watching his show, Bill Nye the Science Guy. But his work didn’t stop once the show we more...
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- Jason Sussberg, David Alvarado
- USA/Greenland
- 2017
- Billy’s Balloon
Think Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, only with balloons. And funnier. Much funnier. —Tod Booth more...
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- Don Hertzfeldt
- USA
- 1998
- Billy’s Balloon
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- Don Hertzfeldt
- USA
- 1998
- Bimbo’s Auto
A conventional theatrical cartoon from the Eric Porter Studios, in Technicolor. This was one of two projected pilot films for an American-financed series. However, the advent of television eclipsed th more...
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- Eric Porter Sudios
- Australia
- 1954
- Bing Can Sing
An animated short in which birds of different feathers learn to sing together. —Abby Staeble more...
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- Elanna Allen
- USA
- 2005
- Binge
This shape-shifting electronic diary reveals a psychological tangle of deprived love, self-hatred and changing conceptions of the body as Hershman records her struggle with weight during a one-year pe more...
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- Lynn Hershman
- USA
- 1987
- Biography of a Young Accordion Player
A vivid, largely autobiographical chronicle of growing up in rural Kazakhstan during the Stalinist era, Satybaldy Narymbetov’s film brings to life with beauty and wry charm a history and a culture r more...
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- Satybaldy Narymbetov
- Kazakhstan
- 1994
- The Birch Wood
A prize-winning film at the Moscow Film Festival, The Birch Wood surprised the critics by exhibiting another facet of the director Andrzej Wajda. It is the most intense character drama he has m more...
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- Andrzej Wajda
- Poland
- Birchbeer
My head is a bottle of birch beer. Yours is peppermint candy. The end. more...
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- JoJo Li
- USA
- 2006
- Bird
Based on the life of jazz legend Charlie Parker, Bird zeroes in on the head-on collision between Parker’s unparalleled musical genius and his lifelong (since age 15) heroin addiction. Bird is more...
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- Clint Eastwood
- USA
- 1988
- Bird Now
There are two main characters in Bird Now. One is Charlie "Bird" Parker, the legendary jazzman whose turbulent career the film traces—evoking the jazz music of black America in the 40s... The more...
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- Marc Huraux
- USA
- 1987
- The Bird People of China
In a quirky new twist on buddy movies, an uptight salaryman with a laptop computer, an irritable yakuza hit man with a hair-trigger temper and a guide with an exceedingly poor memory wander through ru more...
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- Takashi Miike
- Japan
- 1997
FACTOID #208
Before the showing of Robert Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest at the 40th SFIFF, Bay Area editor Walter Murch (who selected the film to screen in the Indelible Images series), passed out fortune cookies to the crowd with Bresson’s musings on making films.
