60th San Francisco International Film Festival at BAMPFA
60th San Francisco International Film Festival at BAMPFA
April 6–16, 2017
BAMPFA is proud to be the East Bay venue for this global showcase of cinematic discovery.
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The Wedding Ring
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Duet
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Mister Universo
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Ma' Rosa
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The Future Perfect
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Serenade for Haiti
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Maliglutit (Searchers)
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The Death of Louis XIV
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The Ornithologist
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Donkeyote
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The Force
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Leaning into the Wind—Andy Goldsworthy
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Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Past Films
World Without End (No Reported Incidents)
Jem Cohen
United States, 2016Thursday, April 6 6:30 PMView DetailsThis portrait of Southend-on-Sea, a working-class resort town, gently leads us into a forgotten Britain where the unspoken specter of Brexit looms. With Cohen’s shorts Birth of a Nation and Bury Me Not.
The Death of Louis XIV
Albert Serra
France, Portugal, Spain, 2016Thursday, April 6 8:30 PMView DetailsSet in the bedchamber of the dying Louis XIV (Jean-Pierre Léaud), this masterful film presents a painstaking observation of royalty that hovers between the somber reality of death and the humor that lies in the details.
I Called Him Morgan
Kasper Collin
Sweden, United States, 2016Friday, April 7 6:30 PMFilmmaker in personView DetailsThis riveting documentary draws a you-are-there portrait of New York’s 1960s jazz scene and one of its key players, Lee Morgan, whose career was cut short in 1972 when his common-law wife shot him to death.
The Unknown Girl
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Belgium, France, 2016Friday, April 7 8:45 PMView DetailsThe Dardenne brothers have won the Cannes Palme d’Or twice for their incomparable portraits of underrepresented lives. Here, their protagonist is a doctor who sets out to uncover the identity of a woman who died near her office.
The Paris Opera
Jean-Stéphane Bron
France, Switzerland, 2016Saturday, April 8 1:30 PMView DetailsIn the wake of the November 2015 terrorist attacks, the legendary Paris Opera has several shows to mount and numerous difficulties to face. This expertly crafted and brilliantly entertaining documentary demonstrates how the show manages to still go on.
Serenade for Haiti
Owsley Brown
United States, 2016Saturday, April 8 4 PMFilmmakers in personView DetailsThis vibrant documentary tribute to the students and teachers of Sainte Trinité Music School in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, testifies to the role that art can play in creating community and sustaining hope under the most difficult of circumstances.
Ma' Rosa
Brillante Ma Mendoza
Philippines, 2016Saturday, April 8 6 PMView DetailsUnfolding in what feels like real time with a gritty social realist style, Brillante Mendoza’s latest is the harrowing and timely story of a couple arrested for selling drugs and their children’s race to find the money to bribe corrupt police.
Who Cares. Who Sees: Experimental Shorts
Cosponsored by San Francisco Cinematheque
Curated by Vanessa O’Neill and Kathy GeritzSaturday, April 8 8:30 PMFilmmakers in personView DetailsHow we see others and understand them is explored through six poetic films by Janie Geiser, Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller, Adam Levine and Sara Smith, Brigid McCaffrey, Jesse McLean, and Madi Piller.
Leaning into the Wind—Andy Goldsworthy
Thomas Reidelsheimer
United Kingdom, 2017Sunday, April 9 1:30 PMFilmmakers in personView DetailsThis collaborative sequel to the landmark Rivers and Tides finds artist Andy Goldsworthy still appealingly engaged in his philosophical and tactical exploration of the natural world.
Godless
Ralitza Petrova
Bulgaria, Denmark, 2016Sunday, April 9 3:45 PMView DetailsIn post-Communist Bulgaria, justice is rare and making the right choice comes at a cost. A home care nurse faces her own difficult choices in this bold observation of a woman trapped in a fatalistic culture.
A Date for Mad Mary
Darren Thornton
Ireland, 2016Sunday, April 9 6 PMView DetailsFresh from serving a jail sentence for brawling, Mary embarks on a time-crunched hunt for an acceptable wedding date, a search that takes her to uncharted places in this unconventional, energetic romantic comedy.
The Transfiguration
Michael O'Shea
United States, 2016Sunday, April 9 8:15 PMView DetailsCombining gritty urban realism with vampire-movie name-checks galore, this debut film tells the story of a teenage loner with a problem—he has a thirst for blood—and the slightly older girl who befriends him.
Sieranevada
Cristi Puiu
Romania, 2016Tuesday, April 11 6:30 PMView DetailsA movie about big themes set in a small space, the latest from Romanian master Cristi Puiu (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu) takes place in a flat where relatives wait for a priest to deliver last rites to the family patriarch.
Muhi—Generally Temporary
Rina Castelnuovo-Hollander, Tamir Elterman
Israel, Germany, 2017Wednesday, April 12 6:30 PMFilmmakers in personView DetailsMuhi, a cherubic Palestinian toddler with a life-threatening illness, was transported to an Israeli hospital as a baby and has lived there ever since. This documentary locates his family’s story within the crucible of the relentless Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Family Life
Alicia Scherson, Cristián Jiménez
Chile, 2017Wednesday, April 12 8:45 PMView DetailsWhile housesitting for an estranged relative, Martín takes the phrase “make yourself at home” to uncomfortable extremes in this wry exploration of fortysomething malaise.
The Wedding Ring
Rahmatou Keïta
Niger, Burkina Faso, France, 2016Thursday, April 13 6:30 PMFilmmakers in personView DetailsThe Wedding Ring is a rare achievement, a wondrously complex dramatic feature directed by an African woman that explores female desires and empowerment in a traditional Muslim society.
Hermia & Helena
Matías Piñeiro
United States, Argentina, 2016Thursday, April 13 8:45 PMView DetailsThis quasi-adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in which a young theater director comes to New York from Buenos Aires to translate Shakespeare’s play, casts a lasting spell with its ephemeral beauty and unpretentious vitality.
Life After Life
Zhang Hanyi
China, 2016Friday, April 14 4 PMFilmmakers in personView DetailsProduced by Jia Zhangke, this evocative and poetic ghost story depicts a rapidly disappearing way of life in rural China with a gorgeous visual sensibility and subtly wry humor.
Mister Universo
Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
Austria, Italy, 2016Friday, April 14 6:30 PMView DetailsWhen a cherished childhood lucky charm is stolen, a young lion tamer must leave his circus behind and travel the back roads of Italy in this captivating docudrama that evokes the spirits of Fellini and De Sica.
The Future Perfect
Nele Wohlatz
Argentina, 2016Friday, April 14 8:45 PMFilmmaker in personView DetailsAn eighteen-year-old travels from China to Buenos Aires to join her conservative family and rebels against them by taking a Spanish class, where lessons learned become ways to imagine a “future perfect.”
The Force
Peter Nicks
United States, 2017Saturday, April 15 4 PMFilmmakers in personView DetailsIn this powerful, immersive look at a turbulent time in the Oakland Police Department, filmmaker Peter Nicks (The Waiting Room) avoids easy generalizations and upends expectations.
The Winter
Emiliano Torres
Argentina, France, 2016Saturday, April 15 6:30 PMView DetailsIn this observant, measured feature debut, the onset of winter affects both the aging foreman of a hardscrabble Patagonian sheep ranch and the younger man who comes to work for the season.
The Ornithologist
João Pedro Rodrigues
Portugal, France, Brazil, 2016Saturday, April 15 8:30 PMView DetailsFollowing a strapping young ornithologist stranded in the wilderness, this metaphysical (but also very physical) adventure by Portugal’s most idiosyncratic auteur twists St. Anthony of Padua’s legend into a playfully modern shape.
Maliglutit (Searchers)
Zacharias Kunuk, Natar Ungalaaq
Canada, 2016Sunday, April 16 1:30 PMView DetailsCanadian-Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk’s film continues in the breathtaking vein of his unforgettable Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner with a story of cruelty and cold revenge based loosely on John Ford’s The Searchers.
Duet
Navid Danesh
Iran, 2016Sunday, April 16 3:45 PMView DetailsAfter a Tehran musician instigates an encounter with his college girlfriend, their lives are thrown into existential crisis. This resonant and moving depiction of the impact the past has on the present is both culturally specific and universal in its reach.
Donkeyote
Chico Pereira
Spain, Germany, Scotland, 2017Sunday, April 16 6 PMFilmmaker in personView DetailsA Spanish man’s quest to defy barriers and borders by embarking on the Trail of Tears with his donkey by his side is its own quixotic trail of laughter and tears in this winning tale.
El mar la mar
Joshua Bonnetta, J. P. Sniadecki
United States, 2017Sunday, April 16 8:15 PMView DetailsWeaving breathtaking footage of the Sonoran Desert with eerie off-camera interviews, this film captures the desperation and haunting beauty that the land between Mexico and the United States has come to represent.