Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
Into the Middle of Nowhere
Conceiving Ada
Castro Street
Careful
Isadora Duncan: Movement from the Soul
Kimjongilia
Lake Tahoe
Alamar
Street of Crocodiles
The Day He Arrives
Le quattro volte
Protagonist
The San Francisco Int'l Film Festival
Billed as the "longest-running film festival in the Americas," the San Francisco International Film Festival has been bringing exciting cinematic works to the Bay Area for more than half a century. With a tradition of championing thought-provoking international and experimental gems in addition to the latest independent festival fare, SFIFF offers a broad range of films that challenge and entertain audiences. We've tried to capture this diversity with a selection of some of the most memorable and unique films to have screened at the festival over the years.
Selected Films
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The Day He Arrives
A film director who no longer makes films, Seongjun, arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn't show up, Seongjun wanders the city aimlessly. He runs into an actress he used to know, shares a drink with some film students and against his better judgment,...Watch Movie
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Into the Middle of Nowhere
INTO THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE celebrates the uniqueness of childhood and the nonexistence of limits to a child’s imagination. In an outdoor nursery in the woods, children create their own individually constructed worlds and can test out the boundaries of reality. The environment...Watch Movie
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We are the Littletons
WE ARE THE LITTLETONS presents a tangled web of found objects, intercepted correspondences, reenactments and total fabrications centered around Eve Littleton, an artist with "movie star good looks" who was mysteriously banished from her postcard-perfect American family. Penny...Watch Movie
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The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal
Emerging from the human psyche and showing characteristics of abstract expressionism, minimalism and Russian constructivism, graffiti removal has secured its place in the history of modern art while being created by artists who are unconscious of their artistic achievements....Watch Movie
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Conceiving Ada
In this award-winning film (which was the first to use "virtual sets"), Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton embodies Lady Ada Lovelace, daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron and the mathematics genius who developed what became the world's first computer language one hundred years before computers...Watch Movie
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Careful
Guy Maddin's early masterpiece takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents (adult, child and animal!) must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. CAREFUL resembles a vintage melodrama from another planet, something that could only emerge from the...Watch Movie
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Isadora Duncan: Movement from the Soul
This unsentimental portrait of the complex and charismatic "Mother of Modern Dance" traces the life and artistic development of San Francisco-born Isadora Duncan (1877-1927). Duncan raised dance from mere vaudeville entertainment to a legitimate art form, laying the foundation...Watch Movie
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Street of Crocodiles
Stephen and Timothy Quay's masterpiece, STREET OF CROCODILES is adapted from the book by Polish writer Bruno Schulz and was their first film shot on 35mm. A museum keeper spits into the eyepiece of an ancient peep-show and sets the musty machine in motion, plunging the viewer...Watch Movie
