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  Antonelli Contrasts Africa’s ‘Killing Seasons’

  Michael Fox
  May 18, 2011

  John Antonelli finds good news, bad news and plenty of drama in African environmental stories.

  
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  Antonelli Contrasts Africa’s ‘Killing Seasons’

  Michael Fox
  May 18, 2011

  John Antonelli finds good news, bad news and plenty of drama in African environmental stories.

  
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  San Francisco International Film Festival's 53rd Edition

  Susan Gerhard
  Mar 30, 2010

  Director of Programming Rachel Rosen and programmers Rod Armstrong, Audrey Chang and Sean Uyehara shared thoughts on 177 films from 46 countries.

  
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  Connie Field's Magnum Opus on Anti-Apartheid Movement

  Michael Fox
  Jan 12, 2010

  By any measure, the long-awaited release of Have You Heard from Johannesburg? shapes up to be one of the major documentary events of 2010.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Tangerine Dreams: Cinematheque de Tanger's Morocco Showcase

  Simona Schneider
  Oct 1, 2009

  Tangier has created an identity as a great fount of stories and light, complete with an independent cinema that opened in 2007.

  
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  Kim Longinotto and Women Make Movies Film Festival

  Adam Hartzell
  Aug 27, 2009

  A mini-retrospective of the work of Kim Longinotto plays during the Women Make Movies Film Festival at the Roxie.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Lee Isaac Chung on 'Munyurangabo'

  Elizabeth Rader
  Jun 12, 2009

  One can't help but think about the concept of cinematic language, as well as spoken language, when talking with Munyurangabo filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung.

  
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  Bahrani Earns Ebert's Praise for "Goodbye Solo"

  Dennis Harvey
  Apr 17, 2009

  Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo prompted Roger Ebert to pronounce him "the new great American directorâ" a couple weeks ago. The film is definitely the writer-helmer's most accessible work to date, one that might very well provide him with an arthouse breakthrough.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  SF International Film Festival Lineup

  Susan Gerhard
  Mar 31, 2009

  The two weeks of programs offers 151 films from 55 countries, awards and prices, and a wide array of San Francisco talent, from legendary names to the fledgling artists.

  
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  Essay Films at the Pacific Film Archive

  David Winks Gray
  Jan 30, 2009

  The PFA's series of "essay films," a collection of diverse work, offers the viewer an opportunity to adapt to the peculiar tone of these films.

  
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  Genuflection: 'Pray the Devil Back to Hell'

  Dennis Harvey
  Dec 9, 2008

  Gini Reiticker's fine documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell, opens at SF's Red Vic Movie House and Berkeley's Shattuck Cinemas.

  
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  SFFS Screens 'Delwende'

  Dennis Harvey
  Oct 28, 2008

  Veteran Burkina Faso director S. Pierre Yameogo's new film shows an isolated society still vulnerable to superstition.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  San Francisco Black Film Festival's 10th

  Dennis Harvey
  Jun 4, 2008

  In 2008 the San Francisco Black Film Festival marks its 10th anniversary with the most expansive program yet, flagging the theme "10 Years, 10 Days, 100 Films."

  
• Q & A
  
  

  SFIFF51: California Newsreel at 40

  Erika Young
  Apr 21, 2008

  Founded in 1968, San Francisco-based Newsreel is the oldest nonprofit, social-issue documentary film center in the U.S.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Danny Glover, "Honeydripper," and Us

  Dennis Harvey
  Feb 27, 2008

  In Honeydripper it will no doubt be pleasure to see Danny Glover play a familiar character: The good man trying to gain a leg-up when fortune has rained on his hopes.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  San Francisco Black Film Festival

  Dennis Harvey
  Jun 7, 2007

  Nine years' vintage makes the SFBFF a newcomer by Bay Area standards. In terms of programmatic diversity and premieres, it's got old-soul depth.

  
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  Reviews: "Bamako" and "Angel-A"

  Robert Avila
  May 29, 2007

  A masterful stroke by writer-director Abderrahmane Sissako; Luc Besson returns to American theaters after a nearly decade-long absence.