FILMS
- Bürgschaft für ein Jahr
Known primarily for his children and youth films (Little Philipp, 1975; Seven Freckles, 1978), Herrmann Zschoche scored a hit at the 1982 Berlin film festival with Bürgschaft für ei more...
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- Herrmann Zschoche
- East Germany
- 1981
- Buried in the Backyard
Believe it or not, there is an active contingent of citizens building bomb shelters in the U.S. right now. But why? more...
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- Monica Bigler, Sarah Prior
- USA
- 2004
- Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
If there’s a gutsier group of journalists anywhere on the globe than the network of youthful correspondents that calls itself the Democratic Voice of Burma, we haven’t heard of them. Just as democ more...
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- Anders Østergaard
- Denmark/Sweden
- 2008
- Burning Bush
A shrub bursting with dazzling fall colors is at once real and unreal, natural and created. more...
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- Vincent Grenier
- Canada/USA
- 2010
- Burning Dreams
Burning Dreams is the improbable but true story of Liang Yi—who regards himself as China’s seventysomething answer to Fred Astaire—and his Shanghai dance school. After years in Southeast more...
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- Wayne Peng
- Taiwan
- 2003
- Burnt by the Sun
An Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Mikhalkov’s most recent work, cowinner of the 1994 Cannes Film Festival’s Jury Prize, is the creation of a man facing the awful ghosts lurking in t more...
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- Nikita Mikhalkov
- Russia / France
- 1994
- Burt’s Buzz
“A good day is when no one shows up, and you don’t have to go anywhere,” says Ingram Berg Shavitz of Maine. Instantly recognizable as the hippie with the railroad cap on a billion tins and tubes more...
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- Jody Shapiro
- Canada
- 2013
- Bus 174
This transfixing, tragic account of a Rio de Janeiro bus hijacking is told with all the narrative tension of a thriller. Hijacker Sandro do Nascimento’s inexorable but sadly archetypal trajectory fr more...
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- Jose Padilha
- Brazil
- 2002
- Bus 24: The Diversity Bus
The ethnic and cultural multiplicity of San Francisco comes to life on the #24 Muni from Bayview–Hunters Point through the city’s array of neighborhoods. —Joanne Parsont more...
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- Julie Trell, Aron Ranon, Cierra Crowell, Joseph Crowell, Theo Ellington, Josh Lau, Crystal Lowe, Saman Minapara, Jerry Robinson, Shykeela Shepard, Judy Sin, Kurt Tom
- USA
- 2003
- The Bus Is Coming
When the San Francisco Film Festival honored Melvin Van Peebles in 1966 for his first feature, a great deal of attention was given to the possible emergence of the Black director as a new creative fig more...
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- Wendell Franklin
- USA
- Bushman
A rare sort of film portrait, part document, part imaginary and poetic in its approach to real events, Bushman is the first feature film by David Schickele. It describes the experiences and mis more...
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- David Schickele
- USA
- The Bushman
A hilarious portrait of the everyday man on the street—with branches. Beware the sidewalk foliage! —Joanne Parsont more...
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- Paul Glanting
- USA
- 1999
- The Business of America
At a time when perennial unemployment plagues American industrial centers, the release of this exposé is timely and provocative. The film examines how the floundering steel industry is forcing both m more...
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- Larry Adelman, Lawrence Daressa, Bruce Schmiechen
- USA
- 1984
- The Business of Strangers
The talent and intelligence of this year’s Peter J. Owens Award recipient Stockard Channing dominates this tale of the subtle rituals and power games of the corporate world. Panicked that she may so more...
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- Patrick Stettner
- USA
- 2001
- Buster Keaton Rides Again
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- Canada
- Buster’s Mal Heart
Jonah is a frustrated hotel concierge, sitting alone at a large front desk during the night shift. Buster is a grizzled mountain wanderer, breaking into unoccupied vacation homes for food and lodging more...
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- Sarah Adina Smith
- USA
- 2016
- But Forever in My Mind
Sixteen-year-old Silvio dreams of finding a girlfriend, but he’s got a few problems to deal with first. Students protesting privatization have occupied his high school, but his parents won’t let h more...
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- Gabriele Muccino
- Italy
- 1999
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
When Robert Redford and Paul Newman leapt off that cliff in the climactic scene of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, they leapt straight into movie mythology. The exploits of two 19th-century more...
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- George Roy Hill
- USA
- 1969
- Butler
An acerbically funny animated film about a butler who tends to his employer’s every need. —Maïa Cybelle Carpenter more...
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- Erik Rosenlund
- Sweden
- 2005
- Butterfly and Flowers
Richly deserving winner of seven Thai Film Awards and top prize at the Hawaii Film Festival, Euthana’s magical film is about Muslim kids in the south of Thailand who earn a living of sorts smuggling more...
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- Euthana Mukdasnit
- Thailand
- 1985
- The Butterfly Story
A fantasized travelogue about China and the erotic dreams of Mao Zedong. more...
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- Marina Grzinic, Aina Smid
- Slovenia
- 1994
- The Butterfly
In the winter of 1936, Spain is just months away from civil war, and seven-year-old Moncho is on the verge of his first school year. Terrified by rumors that teachers beat their students, he barely ma more...
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- José Luis Cuerda
- Spain
- 1999
- Buud Yam
Fifteen years ago, Gaston Kaboré introduced the title character of his immensely popular African film, Wend Kuuni, a young boy orphaned when his mother, branded a witch by their village, is stoned to more...
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- Gaston J.M. Kaboré
- Burkina Faso / France
- 1997
- By Courier
A witty and well crafted tale about the inadequacies of language and the rift between two lovers. —Mimi Brody more...
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- Peter Riegert
- USA
- 2000
- By Stones Imprisoned
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- Yugoslavia
- By the Fire
Daniel and Alejandra, a working class couple in their late 30s, move to the countryside near the Andes Mountains to begin the next chapter of their life together. Alejandra is ill, and Daniel looks af more...
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- Alejandro Fernández Almendras
- Chile/Spain, Argentina, Germany
- 2011
- By the Sea
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- USA
- Bye Bye
The mean streets of Marseille and that city’s dangerous drug trade provide the shadowy backdrop to Tunisian-born director Karim Dridi’s followup to his acclaimed 1994 feature debut Pigalle, more...
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- Karim Dridi
- France
- 1995
- Bye Bye Africa
Bye Bye Africa begins on a deeply personal note, with a late-night phone call from Chad notifying filmmaker Mahamet Saleh Haroun of his mother’s death. What follows is a blend of fiction and more...
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- Mahamet Saleh Haroun
- Chad / France
- 1999
- Bye Bye America
Warmed by wry humor and gentle observations, Bye Bye America centers on three beautifully wrought characters, all past the prime of life but full of winsome naïveté and expectant dreams. Thei more...
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- Jan Schutte
- Germany / Poland
- 1993
- Bye Bye Brazil
The contemporary Brazilian cinema seems to be going through a period of transition. In recent years, the obsessive political allegories of the Cinema Novo movement of the ’60s and last decade have d more...
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- Carlos Diegues
- Brazil
- 1980
- The Byelorussian Station
A sympathetic, emotionally persuasive drama describing the friendship of four World War II veterans, their sudden reunion after 25 years and the subsequent effect of this occasion upon their thoughts more...
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- Andrei Smirnov
- USSR
- C. Soutine
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- Rita Morrison
- USA
- C: None of the Above
Censorship and conformity are challenged by a determined young man fed up with the restrictions that surround him. —Joanne Parsont more...
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- Daniel Downey, Andrew Baxter
- USA
- 2004
- Ça Va, Ça Vient
An ingenious, altogether wondrous first feature by the actor-singer, Pierre Barouh (A Man and a Woman), in which the Parisian working class is dramatized with love, humor and honesty. It evokes more...
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- Pierre Barouh
- France
- 1972
- Cabeza de Vaca
Filmmaker Nicolas Echevarria long dreamed of adapting to the screen the journal of Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, who, shipwrecked off the Florida Coast in 1528, performed an almost unbe more...
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- Nicolás Echevarría
- Mexico
- 1990
- Cabin Fever
Five dimwitted, foulmouthed college students escape to a cabin deep in the woods for a post-graduation vacation. When a demented stranger covered with oozing, bloody sores appears, things turn very, v more...
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- Eli Roth
- USA
- 2002
- Cabinet
A hand on the shoulder. A deep breath. An empty room. Todd Herman’s fragile video presents a conceptual space between aging and expiration. —Sean Uyehara more...
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- Todd Herman
- USA
- 2007
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
For years Dr. Caligari was known only in black-and-white, but the restored film has been given back both its original color tints and tones and its original hand-printed titles with their disti more...
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- Robert Wiene, Carl Mayer
- Germany
- 1919
- The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer
The animated films of the Brothers Quay (Philadelphia-born twins Stephen and Timothy who, with Keith Griffiths, formed Atelier Koninck in England) reveal great originality in inventing astonishingly e more...
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- Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
- England
- 1984
- Cachao (Como su Ritmo No Hay Dos)
Cuban-born actor Andy Garcia (Godfather III), a passionate student of Cuba’s rich musical heritage, makes his debut as a filmmaker with this documentary about one of the greatest living expon more...
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- Andy García
- USA
- 1993
- Cachao: Uno Más
A mild-mannered elderly gentleman steps onstage amid an ensemble of topnotch musicians. It is the living legend, the “Picasso of the bass,” the great Cuban musician Israel “Cachao” López, who more...
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- Dikayl Rimmasch
- USA
- 2008
- Caddie
This beautifully realized award-winning romantic epic confirms the recent promise of Australian cinema and establishes actress Helen Morse and director Donald Crombie as major talents on the internati more...
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- Donald Crombie
- Australia
- Café 1996
A lyrical film about gentrification in present-day Oakland, as seen through the eyes and words of its residents. more...
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- Jess Fulton
- USA
- 2003
- Cafe Offering
A dishwasher’s loving farewell toast to the spirit and people of a now-shuttered cafe. more...
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- David Tattu
- USA
- The Cage Fighter
Joe Carman is a 40-year-old family man who has promised his wife and four daughters not to return to competitive mixed martial arts fighting, the dangerous sport that gives him the most complete sense more...
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- Jeff Unay
- USA
- 2017
- The Caiman
With his first feature since The Son’s Room (2001), Nanni Moretti returns to the acerbic political satire that was his trademark in the ’80s and ’90s. Released on the eve of Italy’s nat more...
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- Nanni Moretti
- Italy/France
- 2006
FACTOID #336
Bing Crosby was invited several times for an onstage tribute at the Festival, reports then-director Claude Jarman, but declined the honor. “Nobody wants to see those little things that I used to do,” he modestly replied. He did attend though, with wife Kathy and their friend, Rita Hayworth.
