Thursday, April 24, 2008

51st San Francisco International Film Festival

The 51st San Francisco International Film Festival runs April 24–May 8, 2008 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, the Castro Theatre and Landmark’s Clay Theatre in San Francisco; and the Pacific Film Archive Theater in Berkeley. Held each spring for 15 days, the San Francisco International Film Festival is an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and innovation in the country’s most beautiful city, featuring 25 awards, 200 films and live events with upwards of 100 participating filmmakers and diverse audiences of 80,000+ people.

Here's a list of Asian and Asian american films screening over the next couple of weeks:

Big Man Japan, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Japan
Black Belt, Shunichi Nagasaki, Japan
Brick Lane, Sarah Gavron, England
Calcutta My Love, Goutam Ghose, India
Flower in the Pocket, Liew Seng Tat, Malaysia
Frozen, Shivajee Chandrabhushan, India
Glasses, Naoko Ogigami, Japan
Huling Balyan Ng Buhi (or The Woven Stories of the Other), Sherad Anthony Sanchez, Philippines
Linger, Johnnie To, Hong Kong
Mongol, Sergei Bodrov, Germany/China/Mongolia/Kazakhstan
Orz Boyz, Gillies Ya-che Yang, Taiwan
Pool, Chris Chong Chan Fui, Indonesia (short)
Secret, Jay Chou, Taiwan
Shadows in the Palace, Kim Meejeung, South Korea
Still Life, Jia Zhangke, Hong Kong/China
10 + 4, Mania Akbari, Iran
Umbrella, Du Haibin, China
Up the Yangtze, Yung Chang, Canada
The Warlords, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Hong Kong
WING, the fish that talked back, Ricky Rijneke, Netherlands (short)
Wonderful Town, Aditya Assarat, Thailand
Calavera Highway, Renee Tajima-Peña, USA/Mexico
Since You’ve Been Ong, Frank Yeean Chan, USA (short)