- bysebastopolfilm
- 3 years ago
Pol. + Gov & Best Doc Advocate (Philippe Bellaiche + Rachel Leah Jones, 2019) A portrait of Lea Tsemel, a Jewish-Israeli human rights lawyer who...
- bysebastopolfilm
- 3 years ago
“More and more frequently I bless the people that others have called my ‘enemy’ or ‘unacceptable’ or ‘crazy,’ for it is the presence of such...
- bysebastopolfilm
- 3 years ago
In early July, the UAE announced it had selected 28 year-old mechanical engineer Nora al-Matrooshi to train as an astronaut for its expanding space program, and will...
- bysebastopolfilm
- 3 years ago
Following the release of the acclaimed documentary (and SDFF 2021 selection) Julia Scotti: Funny That Way (Susan Sandler, 2021), Julia Scotti, the film’s star was recently featured on...
- bysebastopolfilm
- 3 years ago
An stunningly animated documentary about repair and recycling abandoned folk furniture in an Irish village
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- 3 years ago
In a striking mix of normalcy and trauma, solace and gravity, Last Days at Paradise High looks at a climate catastrophe through the eyes of a group of teenagers.
- bysebastopolfilm
- 3 years ago
An ancient Japanese farmhouse rescued… An intimate story about architecture, memory and the meaning of home
- bysebastopolfilm
- 3 years ago
SDFF Co-Director Jean McGlothlin interviews filmmaker Mirra Bank about her important and beautifully shot film, No Fear No Favor. Bank discuses her approach to representing nature conservation...
- bysebastopolfilm
- 3 years ago
Yung Chang, the filmmaker behind two SDFF 2021 films that deal with dangerous, politically fraught, and ultimately tragic, situations discusses Wuhan Wuhan and This Is Not A Movie.
- bysebastopolfilm
- 3 years ago
SDFF Co-Director Jean McGlothlin sits down with Farzaneh Omidvarnia, the polymath filmmaker behind Song Sparrow, a flooring documentary that uses puppetry to tell a refugee story.