The festival began in 1957 as an international showcase that affirmed San Francisco’s reputation as an arts-embracing cosmopolitan city with an appreciation of world cinema
“Children of the Mist,” a documentary from Vietnam by Ha Le Diem, features a Hmong teen who must choose whether to honor or buck tradition.
“Curating the best of international and independent films for the Bay Area has always been a focus of the San Francisco International Film Festival,” says Jessie Fairbanks, SFFILM’s director of programming. “SFFILM had submissions from 107 countries this year; it was an honor to watch films from so many parts of the world.”
“I believe that festivals are more crucial than ever,” Fairbanks says. “There is so much content everywhere — on your phone, on streaming platforms, on social media, in first-run theaters — and it can be really hard to find distinctive and unique films. That is where festivals come in.” Terence Davies — the one-of-a-kind British writer-director whose feature films, period pieces all, include the Liverpool-set “Distant Voices, Still Lives” and recently the Emily Dickinson biopic “A Quiet Passion” — is also on the bill. Davies’ latest, “Benediction,” profiles another poet, Siegfried Sassoon, focusing on his opposition to World War I and his life as a closeted gay artist.
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