FILMS
- Cairo as Told by Youssef Chahine
Cairo as Told by Youssef Chahine is a perceptive look at an ancient city by the dean of Arab filmmakers: “I love Cairo profoundly. It’s the people and not the city itself that I love, beca more...
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- Youssef Chahine
- Egypt / France
- 1991
- Cairo Time
Patricia Clarkson, the soulful Southern-born American actress of countless memorable features, dons a Middle Eastern headscarf for a melancholy solo stroll through the narrow passageways of contempora more...
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- Ruba Nadda
- Canada
- 2009
- Cake
Katie, a precocious 11-year-old orphan, will do whatever it takes to keep her best friend Roger from being adopted and leaving the orphanage where they live. Little does she know that an even bigger s more...
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- Jennifer Arzt
- USA
- 2005
- Cakewalk at the Nouveau Cirque
The director’s testimony of dance on film. more...
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- Louis Lumière
- France
- 1902
- Calavera Highway
When Armando and Carlos Peña hit the road to return their mother Rose’s ashes to Texas, they embark on a profound journey, confronting a past haunted by her estrangement from her family as well as more...
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- Renee Tajima-Peña
- USA/Mexico
- 2007
- Calcutta My Love
“The Calcutta of my youth has changed,” observes Animesh, protagonist of this epic love story set within the radical Naxalite movement of the 1960s and early ’70s. Abruptly, with documentary imm more...
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- Goutam Ghose
- India
- 2007
- Calendar
Between a nondescript Canadian apartment and the sunny hillsides of Armenia, Atom Egoyan (The Adjuster, Speaking Parts) crafts a story of estrangement—personal, cultural and ancestral more...
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- Atom Egoyan
- Armenia / Canada / Germany
- 1993
- Calendar the Siamese
The bizarre story of a down-and-out musician who, for the promise of enough money for a whole year of composing, sells a slice of his own liver to a shady character representing the “biological blac more...
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- Lewis Klahr
- USA
- 1997
- California Company Town
Filmed over a five-year period from 2003 to 2008, Lee Anne Schmitt’s visually ravishing document of the devastation and desolation of California’s abandoned industrial towns is a wholly unique med more...
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- Lee Anne Schmitt
- USA
- 2008
- California Dreams
Toeing the line between documentary, fiction, and uncomfortable comedy, director Mike Ott (Littlerock, Festival 2010; Pearblossom Highway, Festival 2012) returns with more...
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- Mike Ott
- USA
- 2017
- California Images: A Collection of Visual Music
A short collection of “visual music” representing the work of California-based video artists, graphic artists and musicians. more...
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- USA
- 1983
- Call Me Lucky
Bobcat Goldthwait’s (World’s Greatest Dad SFIFF 2009) newest film is a loving and insightful portrait of his friend, stand-up comedian and political activist, Barry Crimmins. We a more...
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- Bobcat Goldthwait
- USA
- 2015
- Call Me Madame
A complex portrait of a complex personality; French surrealist poet, teacher, resistance member turned transsexual. more...
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- Françoise Romand
- France
- 1986
- Call of the Cuckoo
One of five highlights of the 1994 Pordenone Silent Film Festival’s hilarious rediscovery of several American silent comics, whose rib-tickling achievements have been overshadowed by the better know more...
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- Clyde Bruckman
- USA
- 1927
- Call of the Sea
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- Israel
- Calle 54
A musical documentary for music lovers, with songs featured without interruption or voiceover, Spanish director Fernando Trueba’s new work is a celebration of Latin jazz and the people who perform, more...
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- Fernando Trueba
- Spain
- 2000
- Calling All Cars
On a sunny day in April, 1967, Canyon Cinema began distributing experimental films in the Bay Area, and this year celebrates its 35th anniversary. Canyon Cinema is the premier distributor of experimen more...
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- Al Alvarez
- USA
- 2001
- The Calling
Madeleine O’Connor is one of the “good” girls. But does that mean she is destined to become a nun—when all she really wants is to be a ballerina? more...
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- Lisa Chambers
- Australia
- 1999
- Calvary
The words coming from the other side of the confessional are chilling: After first relating the rape he suffered in childhood at the hands of a priest, the anonymous voice promises Father James Lavell more...
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- John Michael McDonagh
- Ireland/UK
- 2013
- Camera Arabe: The Young Arab Cinema
An overview of the New Arab Cinema—outside the lucrative commercial mainstream of Egypt’s Hollywood-on-the-Nile from the 1960s to the present. more...
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- Ferid Boughedir
- Tunisia
- 1987
- The Cameraman’s Revenge
The characters in this melodrama of infidelity—which clearly influenced the Brothers Quay—are all played by actual insects that Starewicz painstakingly manipulated. On his way to work, Mr. Beetle more...
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- Wladyslaw Starewicz
- Russia
- 1912
- Cameraperson
Simultaneously an astute observation of nonfiction filmmaking’s dilemmas, and a wonderfully creative autobiographical collage, Cameraperson is a must-see for all documentary enthusi more...
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- Kirsten Johnson
- USA
- 2016
- Camila
If you can imagine a fervid combination of The Thorn Birds and Kaspar Hauser, then you can prepare yourself for the steamy passion and cool analysis of Maria Luisa Bemberg’s Camila< more...
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- María Luisa Bemberg
- Argentina
- 1984
- Camilla Horn Watching Herself Play Gretchen in Murnau’s Silent Movie “Faust”
Miss Horn’s reactions provide a fascinating commentary on herself and the film. more...
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- Hans Sachs, Hedda Rinneberg
- West German
- 1981
- Camp at Thiaroye
Ousmene Sembene is one of the great directors of African cinema. Camp at Thiaroye, his first film in eleven years, codirected with Thierno Faty Snow, is an unwavering and beguiling work with a more...
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- Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow
- Senegal / Algeria / Tunisia
- 1988
- The Camp Followers
A turbulent war drama, made by Zurlini, one of Italy's major young directors (Girl With A Suitcase, Family Diary), the locale is set in Greece and Yugoslavia during 1942. An Italian lieu more...
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- Valerio Zurlini
- Italy
- 1965
- Can Go Through Skin
Life hangs by a very fine thread. Marieke, a young Dutch woman, is shattered by a random act of violence in Amsterdam. She moves to a decrepit shack in the country with unclear hopes of finding peace, more...
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- Esther Rots
- Netherlands
- 2008
- Candy Viola
A delightful revenge story where everyone who enjoys eating candy and chocolates wins! —Maïa Cybelle Carpenter more...
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- Fabio Simonelli
- Italy
- 2004
- Cane Toads: An Unnatural History
The cane toad’s mission in 1935—to combat a beetle that was destroying Australia’s sugar cane crop—failed: The beetle could fly, the cane toad couldn’t. Oblivious to its failure, the cane to more...
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- Mark Lewis
- Australia
- 1987
- Canhead
Jay Clay must take on the monstrous Canhead in an epic life-and-death struggle. more...
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- Timothy Hittle
- USA
- 1996
- Cannibal Tours
Although there hasn't been an official cannibal in New Guinea since the turn of-the-century, wealthy first-worlders flock to the Sepik River region to encounter the "primitive" haunts of their latter- more...
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- Dennis O’Rourke
- Australia
- 1987
- The Cannibals
In the last decade, Portugal’s Manoel de Oliveira has won belated recognition among cinephiles as one of the most consistently innovative talents in contemporary world cinema. This latest work by th more...
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- Manoel de Oliveira
- Portugal
- 1988
- The Cannibals
The Cannibals is the third feature film by the dynamic woman-director, Liliana Cavani, and the most acclaimed of her works so far. Its reception in Europe has been enormously appreciative, and more...
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- Liliana Cavani
- Italy
- 1970
- Canyon Cinema
The purveyor of some of the most hallucinatory experiments in modern cinema, Guy Maddin turns his eye for the delectably idiosyncratic to the collection of Canyon Cinema. Boasting a catalog of over more...
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- Canyon Consort
Canyon Consort is a musical journey of creation with the Paul Winter Consort. Over a period of three years, they traveled through the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, gaining inspiration for more...
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- David Vassar
- USA
- 1985
- The Cap
Amid the turbulent partition of India in 1947, a young Hindu boy has a chance encounter with a stranger. more...
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- Arjun Rihan
- USA/India
- 2009
- Capelito
A delightful claymation adventure about a mushroom-shaped couple being tormented by a fly. more...
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- Rodolfo Pastor
- Spain
- 2006
- Capitalism: Slavery
Jacobs animates anonymous stereoscopic images of slaves from the late-1800s and brings them to wrenching life. more...
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- Ken Jacobs
- USA
- 2006
- Capoeira of Brazil
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- Warrington Hudlin
- USA
- Capricious Summer
In his successful film debut as a director last year, Menzel proved that he could mingle comic pathos with tragic events in Closely Watched Trains. In his second work, he turns to period comedy more...
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- Jiri Menzel
- Czechoslovakia
- 1968
- The Captain from Köpenick
Released after serving time for a petty crime, an impoverished shoemaker is keen to make a fresh start, but finds himself mired in bureaucracy until he stumbles across a second-hand captain’s unifor more...
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- Helmut Käutner
- West Germany
- 1956
- Captive of the Desert
Photographer and documentary filmmaker Raymond Depardon (Faits Divers SFIFF 1983; Empty Quarter SFIFF 1986) audaciously imposes the rhythm of the desert on every frame of his second fict more...
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- Raymond Depardon
- France
- 1989
- Captive’s Island
A fine melodrama about revenge, filmed in color, but a masterpiece in disguise. A man returns to a small island off the mainland of Japan. He had been there before, because during and after the war, i more...
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- Masahiro Shinoda
- Japan
- 1966
- Carandiru
In Kiss of the Spider Woman, director Hector Babenco combined prison drama, politics and fantasy with great flair. His latest film finds him again within cell walls though with a slightly broad more...
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- Hector Babenco
- Brazil
- 2003
- Cardiogram
In Europe before the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire succeeded in imposing Latin as the official language. In a later time, Russia accomplished a similar feat, and Russian became the language in which t more...
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- Darezhan Omirbaev
- Kazakhstan
- 1995
- A Career Retrospective
He may still be a teenager, but if this enterprising young filmmaker were in Hollywood he’d be receiving a lifetime achievement award. —Joanne Parsont more...
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- Matt Brutocao
- USA
- 1997
FACTOID #300
When she attended the 1980 San Francisco International Film Festival for a tribute, Federico Fellini’s wife and muse Giulietta Masina, admitted that she accepted a bit part in the American film The Madwoman of Chaillot (despite the fact that she could not speak English) just so she could get costar Katherine Hepburn’s autograph.
