I’ve always appreciated the fact that this film festival, now celebrating its 60th year, has always been international in a well-curated and thoughtful way. Not that I haven’t enjoyed meeting filmmakers from previously un-represented countries present for the first time and watching their locally-crafted points of view. But with the variety and number of films…
The intelligent, capable, and unmarried working women of Mumbai struggle to find decent housing in Bachelor Girls…all the world’s a Center Stage in this riveting collection of shorts (one of many in the festival)…LF favorite Randall Okita returns to CAAMFest with The Lockpicker, a visually-stunning meditation on high school and its traumas…Tearepa Kahi’s documentary on…
The Palm Beach pink-bannered Oscar de la Renta exhibition, currently on view at San Francisco’s de Young Museum, is but the latest in a series of the museum’s “blockbuster” fashion shows held in the below-ground special exhibition hall. Oscar de la Renta: The Retrospective includes day and evening pieces from his many decades’ experience as a…
18th SF Independent Film Festival opens 11 February 2015.
The San Francisco Independent Film Festival runs through 19 February 2015, and is not for the faint of heart.. Buy your tickets at sfindie.com.
Co-curators Philbert Ortiz Dy and Joel Shepard have lined up an impressive and diverse selection of films for this festival, including emerging and established filmmakers working within the country and in the diaspora. Notable in the line-up are a pair of epic films: Lav Diaz’ Norte, The End of History (which recently screened at the…
In the Hungarian town of Satovcha in Soul Food Stories, Muslim, Christian, Roma and atheist Communists live together peacefully, united by their love of their families and community, rituals of food, prayer, conversation, fasting, and seasonal festivals, and divided, only superficially, by their religious or political identities. The members of this multi-generational community share a…
