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fest09.sffs.org - 4/27/2009

Al Más Allá | San Francisco International Film Festival

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GOLDEN GATE PERSISTENCE OF VISION AWARD A documentary film crew arrives at a tranquil aqua-toned beach town on Mexico's Mayan coast, chasing the story of three fishermen who happened upon a wayward package of cocaine—flotsam from a steady narco-stream flowing up from South America en route to ...

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fest09.sffs.org - 4/21/2009

Still Walking | San Francisco International Film Festival

— fest09.sffs.org — The arrival of a new film by Hirokazu Kore-eda is an eagerly anticipated event among cinephiles for... whom this remarkably nuanced chronicler of Japanese life, loss and longing is now firmly established as a contemporary master of cinema at its most ... (more) Still Walking | San Francisco International Film Festival

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fest09.sffs.org - 4/25/2009

Adoration | San Francisco International Film Festival

— fest09.sffs.org — An ancient news story takes on new viral life after a teenager transforms a simple translation exercise... into a riveting narrative about his own dead parents, imagining his father as a terrorist who places a bomb in his pregnant girlfriend's handbag. ... (more) Adoration | San Francisco International Film Festival

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fest09.sffs.org - 4/23/2009

The Beast Stalker | San Francisco International Film Festival

— fest09.sffs.org — When a stakeout goes wrong, hotheaded, tough-talking police sergeant Tong (Nicholas Tse) dresses down his plainclothes crew.... Catching sight of the fugitive, Tong picks up the trail again in a harrowing car chase (orchestrated by Hong Kong cinema's ... (more) The Beast Stalker | San Francisco International Film ...

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SFIFF52 Day 5: Empress Hotel
Hell On Frisco Bay — ... and eye-opening document. If Titicut Follies led its viewers to understand the tragic indignities of the institution it portrayed, this film is liable to bring a sensitive viewer to a better understanding of the tragic indignities of a society that shunts aside a portion of its population into near-invisibility. A film like Empress Hotel can only be part of the corrective to this sad situation. SFIFF52 Day 5 Another option: Al Más Allá (MEXICO: Lourdes Portillo, 2008), screening as part of Lourdes Portillo's ...

SFIFF52: AL MÁS ALLÁ—On-Stage Conversation With Lourdes Portillo & John Anderson
The Evening Class — ... Anderson: It's a very kind word. Which brings us to Al Más Allá in a way. I find it hilariously funny. Partly because I know so many people involved in documentary making and the people who need to see this film are probably the ones who wouldn't get it. ...