FEATURES
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Red Vic Reprising 'Lesh Sabreen?'
Muayad Alayan, a 24-year-old filmmaker from the only remaining Arab neighborhood in West Jerusalem, was not even aware there was such a think as Palestinian cinema until, as a teenager,... more
NEWS
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53rd San Francisco International Film Festival to Present Founder's Directing Award to Walter Salles
Press Release: The San Francisco Film Society announced this week that Walter Salles will receive the Founder’s Directing Award at the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival. The Founder’s... more
CALENDAR
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Tiburon International Film Festival—Mar. 18-26
The ninth annual film festival begins this Thursday, opening with the comedy from Italy and Albania, East, West, East: The Final Sprint, and featuring the work of both local and... more
But who's counting?
On the 30th anniversary of Frameline’s lesbian and gay film festival, which began with movies screened on a wrinkled bed sheet, Executive Director Michael Lumpkin and Director of Programming Jennifer Morris celebrated the festival’s history. Morris’s first festival, in 1996, featured an opening night with another Maggenti film, “The Incredibly True Story of Two Girls in Love,” now providing a nice bookend to this year’s opening night Maggenti film, “Puccini for Beginners.” (“Puccini” was produced by former SF filmmaker Eden Wurmfeld.) (Photo by Susan Gerhard)
06.16.2006
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