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WRESTLE article shows its importance to the subjects
WRESTLE shows today and tomorrow at the SFIFF:
Monday, April 9, 2018
6:00 p.m.
Roxie Theater
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Tuesday, April 10, 2018
3:00 p.m.
SFMOMA
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NO DATE, NO SIGNATURE/BIDUN TARIKH, BIDUN IMDHA' (Vahid Jalilvand 2017)
This film about an accident and resulting conflicts about guilt and responsiblity has the complexity of detail and moral examination contemporary Iranian cinema does so well. It also has matters of class, sex, and a sense of a whole society dodging the law and in deep trouble. Some implausible elements don't mar the emotional power, the terrific acting, and the great looking, elegant black and white images. You will writhe with pleasure if you like Iranian films.
بدون تاریخ، بدون امضاء
Last edited by Chris Knipp; 04-10-2018 at 12:34 AM.
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Upcoming coverage.
THE CLEANERS
RAVENS:
Swedish feature about a boy facing the harsh realities of agrarian life.
THE CLEANERS:
The people who trawl the Internet to save us from horrors - doc about a strange nether world.
THE PUSHOUTS:
Bay Area doc about high school dropouts and those who fight back.
All showing at the SFIFF in the next few days.
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RAVENS (Jens Assur 2017)
Grim life on a remote Swedish farm in 1978 relieved by a pretty girl from Stockholm and bird watching for young Klas - but will be have to take over the farm, after all? Debut feature for this photojournalist by trade has beautiful visuals.
THE CLEANERS (Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck 2018)
Benighted, shadowy drones in Manila are underpaid to edit out ugly images from social media, but the really ugly stuff goes unchecked in this short doc that takes on more than it can handle.
THE PUSHOUTS (Katie Galloway 2018)
Under-an-hour doc from award-winning local documentarian follows Victor Rios, a former drug dealer and gang member who became a UC Santa Barbara professor with a wife and kids, as he leads a SoCal program, Yo Watts!, to motivate and turn around kids who have left school, not as "dropouts" but as "pushouts" the system works to defeat.
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THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERYTHING (Mila Turajlić 2017)
Prizewinning documentary is an illustration of how the personal parallels the political as it follows filmmaker Mila Turajlić's mother Srbijanka's description of family and national history starting with the subdivision of their sumptuous apartment in downtown Belgrade in the time of Tito.
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2018 Golden Gate Awards Official Selections
Presented at the Festival since its inaugural year in 1957, the Golden Gate Awards (GGAs) are among the most significant honors for emerging global film artists in the United States. Prizes are awarded in 14 narrative, documentary, and short film categories and total nearly $40,000.
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES
McBaine Documentary Feature Prize winner winner will receive $10,000, and McBaine Bay Area Documentary Feature Prize winner will receive $5,000. Documentary films in competition include:
City of the Sun
Rati Oneli, Georgia/USA/Qatar/Netherlands
The Distant Barking of Dogs
Simon Lereng Wilmont, Denmark/Sweden/Finland
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
RaMell Ross, USA
The Judge (Bay Area)
Erika Cohn, USA/Palestine
Minding the Gap
Bing Liu, USA
The Next Guardian
Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó, Hungary/Netherlands
The Other Side of Everything
Mila Turajlić, Serbia/France/Qatar
The Rescue List (Bay Area)
Alyssa Fedele, Zachary Fink, USA/Ghana
Shirkers
Sandi Tan, USA
Tre Maison Dasan
Denali Tiller, USA
NEW DIRECTORS PRIZE
The Golden Gate Award New Directors Prize of $10,000 will be given to a narrative first feature that exhibits a unique artistic sensibility and deserves to be seen by as wide an audience as possible. This year, ten films are in contention for this award. Narrative films in competition include:
Djon África
João Miller Guerra, Felipa Reis, Portugal/Brazil/Cape Verde
I Am Not a Witch
Rungano Nyoni, UK/France/Zambia/Germany
Night Comes On
Jordana Spiro, USA
Ravens
Jens Assur, Sweden
Scary Mother
Ana Urushadze, Georgia/Estonia
The Sower
Marine Francen, France
Suleiman Mountain
Elizaveta Stishova, Kyrgyzstan/Russia
Those Who Are Fine
Cyril Schäublin, Switzerland
Tigre
Ulises Porra Guardiola, Silvina Schnicer, Argentina
Winter Brothers
Hlynur Pálmason, Denmark/Iceland
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GARY WINOGRAND: ALL THINGS ARE PHOTOGRAPHABLE (Sasha Waters Freyer 2018)
Not the ultimate word on this premier American street photographer of the Sixties and Seventies, but a word long overdue. Part of the PBS American Masters series
MINDING THE GAP (Bing Liu 2018)
Bing Liu's participatory five-year film project becomes a triple coming-of-age story about three guys with parental abuse in their pasts who skateboarded away the pain. Filmed in failing blue collar town Rockford, IL. Well received at Sunance and SXSW, sponsored by Steve James and Kartemquin Films, this seems scattered at times but winds up feeling healing and true. Part of the PBS POV series.
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