San Francisco International Film Festival 2017

[Chris Knipp]

More SFIFF reviews coming.

DUET (Navid Danesh 2016). An Iranian drama somewhat in the spirit of Asghar Farhadi.

THE NEXT SKIN (Isaki Lacuesta, Isa Campo 2016) A tense drama set in the Spanish Pyrenees starring Sergi López, Emma Suárez, newcomer Àlex Monner,and Bruno Todeschini.

PARK (Sofia Exarchou 2016). Blank, lawless kids hanging out in the site of the 2004 Athens Olympics, with a mostly amateur cast.

HEAVEN SENT (Wissam Charaf 2016). In post-civil war Lebanon a heavyset bodyguard and bouncer in Beirut named Omar gets the gig of his dreams guarding a sexy female television presenter turned politician - a funny, and part mystical tale. (Cannes)

TANIA LIBRE (Lynn Hershman Leeson 2016). Tania Libre is a documentary film about internationally renowned Cuban artist Tania Bruguera by Lynn Hershman Leeson, narrated by Tilda Swinton.