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See More SFIFF: Cutie and the Boxer and You're Next

Cutie and the Boxer Dir: Zach Heinzerling Documentary Feature USA, 2013

2011 SFFS Documentary Film Fund Award Winner 

Opens August 23 at Opera Plaza Cinema and Shattuck Cinemas. 

"This elegant movie never reduces or diminishes its subjects, and leaves us to ponder a remarkable truth - that Ushio and Noriko have an abiding love that four decades of frustration, resentment and rivalry have battered but not extinguished. "  — Walter Addiego, SF Chronicle

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You’re Next  Dir: Adam Wingard Narrative Feature USA, 2012

Opens August 23 at select AMC Theatres.

"By slasher standards, the writing is good, with interesting turns and surprises. And the acting isn’t bad, either, though [actor Sharni Vinson] is the one to remember."  — Mick LaSalle, SF Chronicle

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See More SFIFF: Crystal Fairy and An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

Crystal Fairy  Dir: Sebastián Silva Narrative Feature Chile, 2012 Opens July 19 at Opera Cinema Plaza and Shattuck Cinemas.

"Director Sebastián Silva may have crafted a film of out there concepts and ideas, but he certainly knows how to create an environment to get memorable and moving performances out of his actors. Cera is infuriating as Jamie, a boy only focused on himself, but there is a reason the film is titled Crystal Fairy - this is not Jamie’s story, this is a story about a woman and how her complex nature changes those around her."  — Allison Loring, Film School Rejects

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An Oersimplification of Her Beauty Dir: Terence Nance Narrative Feature USA, 2011

Opens July 19 at Roxie Theater and Broaklyn Film & Theater Company .

"Oversimplification is both unprecedented and familiar, with antecedents in both mainstream and art cinema. It recalls inventive, formally ingenious films with hapless, self-involved but charming actor-directors like Annie Hall…"  — Ina Diane Archer, Film Comment

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Peaches Does Herself - SFIFF56 Trailer

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SFIFF56 Award Winners

The San Francisco Film Society wrapped its 56th San Francisco International Film Festival with 263 screenings of 158 films from 51 countries, which were attended by over 210 filmmakers and industry guests from over 21 countries around the globe. During its 15-day run, SFIFF56 showed 67 Narrative Features, 28 Documentary Features and a total of 63 short films.

This year the International awarded over $70,000 in prizes—one of the largest cash totals distributed by a U.S. film festival—to emerging and established filmmakers from ten countries around the world. Below are the award winning films.​

​Golden Gate Award Documentary Feature Winners:

Golden Gate Awards Short Film Winners​

Family Film & Youth Works​

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​​Audience Award Winners

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Thursday night I caught one of the last screenings at the SF International Film Festival & saw God Loves Uganda, a documentary tracing the influence of American evangelical Christians on Uganda.

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On the last day of the SF International Film Festival, I saw The Last Step, an Iranian film by Ali Mosaffa.

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Wednesday evening I saw Present Tense, my first fiction film of the SF International Film Festival.

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Do you know how lucky we are to be doing this? Do you understand that the only way to repay this karmic debt is to make something good, is to make something ambitious, something beautiful, something memorable?

From Steven Soderbergh's State of Cinema address at the San Francisco International Film Festival, regarding his frustration in dealing with studio executives.