Song Fang’s first feature film honors the most simple yet necessary of human endeavors: maintaining family ties. That Miss Song films her own family is both moving and familiar – by the end you start […]
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SFIFF56: Mai Morire by Enrique Rivero
Enrique Rivero’s second feature film takes us back to Mexico, this time to the beautiful landscape and waterways of Xochimilco, where boats are the main mode of transportation. We are reminded of the river Styx […]
Less is More: Animated Shorts at SFIFF56
The distinction between “form” and content” is not useful in this category. Which came first? Which informs what? Which is the story or the design? And indeed in several shorts (“The Deep End,” “Model Starship”) […]
San Francisco International Film Festival – Festival Picks
…and it’s back! With a mob-themed World Cinema Spotlight, a State of the Cinema talk by Steven Soderbergh, a great Shorts program, and lots of films from Asia. Buy your tickets now! Festival runs from […]
