San Francisco International Film Festival

Founded in 1957 by film distributor Irving Levin ( English Irving "Bud" Levin ). The film festival began with good intentions to provide a place for the city of San Francisco on the stage of world culture, as well as to show cinema to the citizens as an art form. ^[3]

Americans saw foreign films. An important work for this was done by the film festival. Among the films that were shown at the first festival were “The Throne in the Blood ” by Akira Kurosawa and “The Song of the Road ” by Satyajit Ray .

One of the obstacles in the early years was the lack of support from large Hollywood studios. Vorotil from the movie scared the looming threat of the arrival of foreign films on the market. The studios were also afraid that the festival would draw attention and money from Oscar. ^[4] Everything has changed since 1959. That year, the film showed the big American film Beloved Pagan ( English Beloved Infidel ), directed by Henry King , in which Gregory Peck and Deborah Kerr played.

1957-1967

• 1960

• The Ballad of a Soldier (1959), Grigori Chukhrai. Prize Golden Gate . Best movie; The best director of a full-length feature film ^[5]
• After the hooter (1959), Vakhtang Bakhtadze cartoon
• Revenge (1960), Irina Poplavskaya . Prize Golden Gate . Best Fiction Short ^[6]

• 1961

• The Witch (1959), Alexander Abramov. Prize Golden Gate . The best gaming short film
• The end of the Black Marsh (1960), Vladimir Degtyarev
• Dog Mongrel and unusual cross (1961), Leonid Gaidai
• Dragonfly and the Ant (1913), Vladislav Starevich
• The Brave Fawn (1957), Olga Khodataeva, Leonid Aristov
• Clear Sky (1961), Gregory Chukhray. Prize Golden Gate . The best director of the full-length feature film

• 1962 - Ivanovo childhood ( Mosfilm , 1962), Andrei Tarkovsky . Prize Golden Gate . The best director of the full-length feature film
• 1964 - At your doorstep (1964), Vasily Orda. Prize Golden Gate . Nadezhda Fedosova - Best Supporting Actress
• 1964 - Shirali descends from the mountains (Born in 1805)
• 1967 - About Love (1970) Mikhail Bogin

1968-1977

• 1969

• Retrospective of the films of Alexander Dovzhenko : Zvenigora (1928), Arsenal (1929), Earth (1930), Aerograd (1935)
• Enchanted Desna (1964), Julia Solntseva
• Unforgettable (1967), Julia Solntseva

• 1970 - War and Peace (1968), Sergey Bondarchuk
• 1971 - Belorussky Station (1970) Andrei Smirnov
• 1971 - Beginning (1970) Gleb Panfilov
• 1972 and 1975 - Anna Karenina (1967) Alexander Zarkhi
• 1972 - White bird with a black mark (1970) Yury Ilyenko
• 1973 - Andrei Rublev (1972) Andrei Tarkovsky
• 1974

• With you and without you (1973), Rodion Nahapetov
• Fierce (1973), Tolomush Okeev

• 1975 - One Hundred Days After Childhood (1975) Sergey Solovyov
• 1976

• Dersu Uzala (1975) Akira Kurosawa
• White Bim - Black Ear (1976) Stanislav Rostotsky

1978-1987

• 1980 - Some days from the life of I. I. Oblomov (1979) Nikita Mikhalkov
• 1983 - Georgian chronicle of the XIX century (1979), Alexander Rekhviashvili
• 1984

• Without witnesses (1983), Nikita Mikhalkov
• Secha under Kerzhents (1971), Ivan Ivanov-Vano , Yuri Norstein
• Ferris Wheel (1926) Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
• Maxim's Youth (1935) Grigory Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg

• 1985 - A woman and her four men (1984) Algimantas Puipa
• 1986 - Go and See (1985) Elem Klimov
• 1986 - The Blue Mountains, or the Unbelievable History (1984) Eldar Shengelaya
• 1987 - Fireflies (1985), Dato Janelidze

1988-1997

• 1988

• Commissioner (1967) Alexander Askoldov
• Gregory Chukhrai's Kinotriptych: The Beginning of an Unknown Age (1987). Angel, Andrei Smirnov . Homeland of electricity, Larisa Shepitko
• Way home (1981), Alexander Rekhviashvili

• 1989

• Ashik-Kerib (1988) Sergey Paradjanov, Dodo Abashidze
• Evening on the eve of Ivan Kupala (1968), Yuri Ilyenko
• Breakfast on the Grass (1987), Priit Pärn
• Confession. Chronicle of Alienation (1988) George Gavrilov
• The story of Asya Klyachinoy, who loved, but never married (1988), Andrei Konchalovsky

• 1990 - Black rose - emblem of sadness, red rose - emblem of love (1990) Sergey Solovyov
• 1990 - Against the Current (1990) Dmitry Delov. A powerful documentary about the ecological mafia in the USSR, where residents of the city of Kirishi strongly oppose the Kirishinefteorgsintez plant polluting the surrounding area. Prize Golden Gate . Special Jury Prize - Best Film about the World ^[7]
• 1992 - Get Out! (1991) Dmitry Astrakhan
• 1992 - Personal file of Anna Akhmatova (1989) Semyon Aranovich Prize Golden Gate . The best film biography of the artist
• 1992 - Oh, you, geese ... (1991) Lydia Bobrova
• 1992 - Scorpion Gardens (1991) Oleg Kovalov
• 1993 - And the wind returns ... (1991), Mikhail Kalik
• 1993 - Fragments of a mirror (1992) Marina Goldovskaya
• 1993 - I wanted to see angels (Russia, USA, 1992) Sergey Bodrov
• 1994 - Year of the Dog (1994) Semyon Aranovich
• 1994 - Life with an idiot (1993) Alexander Rogozhkin
• 1994 - Kosh ba Kosh (Tajikistan, Russia, Switzerland, 1993) Bakhtier Khudoynazarov
• 1994 - Palms (1994) Director Arthur Aristakisyan personally came and received the Prize of Satyajit Ray
• 1994 - Silent Pages (Russia, Germany, 1993) Alexander Sokurov
• 1995 - Viva, Castro! (1994) Boris Frumin
• 1995 - Delegation (Italy, Russia, 1993), Alexander Galin . Inna Churikova plays
• 1995 - Silent Witness (USA, Russia, 1994) Anthony Waller
• 1995 - Burnt by the Sun (Russia, France, 1994), Nikita Mikhalkov
• 1996

• White Holiday (1995) Vladimir Naumov
• Mausoleum (1995) Short film (10 min). Alexey Khanyutin
• The arrival of the train (1995). Short film (9 min). Andrey Zheleznyakov

• 1997 - Grace (1996) Vitaly Mansky . Prize Golden Gate . Golden spire, video and film: sociology
• 1997 - Mother and Son (Russia, Germany, 1997), Alexander Sokurov

1998—2007

• 1998 - Battleship Potemkin (1925), Sergei Eisenstein . Silent film was shown accompanied by original live music, played by Dennis James ^[8]
• 1998 - In that country (1998) Lydia Bobrova
• 1998 - House of the Master (Russia, Germany, 1998), Marianna Kireyova
• 1998 - Go and See (1985) Elem Klimov
• 1999 - Voices (1997) by Andrei Osipov
• 1999 - Dersu Uzala (1975) Akira Kurosawa
• 1999 - Lion with a gray beard (1996) Cartoon , short film (30 min). Andrey Khrzhanovsky
• 1999 - Khrustalev, the car! (Russia, France, 1998) Alexey German
• 2000 - Barak (Dar Company, 1999). Valery Ogorodnikov
• 2000 - Moloch (Russia, Germany, 1999) Alexander Sokurov
• 2000 - Scarecrow (1999) Short film (15 min). Alexander Kott
• 2001 - The exploits of Hercules. Russian fantasy. Pharaoh . (2000). Three short films by Sergey Ovcharov , 10 minutes each Out of a hundred films of an international project on world culture
• 2001 - Short Meetings (1967), Kira Muratova
• 2002 - Sisters (2001) Sergey Bodrov (Jr.)
• 2003 - The Cuckoo (2002). Alexander Rogozhkin
• 2004 - Diary from the World ( Ren TV , 2003), Oksana Barkovskaya . This documentary is prohibited to be shown in Russia. Based on the diaries of the Dubrovka terrorist attack in October 2000. Prize Golden Gate . Best Television Short ^[9]
• 2004 - Koktebel (2003) Boris Khlebnikov , Alexey Popogrebsky
• 2004 - Hare Hunting (2003) Short (23 min). Igor Voloshin
• 2004 - The Best Day (2003). Pavel Medvedev
• 2005 - Harvest Time (2004) Marina Razbezhkina
• 2005 - Twilight (2005) Short (21 min). Victoria Hamburg. Prize Golden Gate . Best Gaming Short
• 2006 - The Sun (Russia, Italy, France, Switzerland, 2005), Alexander Sokurov
• 2007 - The Island (2006) Pavel Lungin
• 2007 - Cinematographer's Revenge (1912) Short (13 min). Vladislav Starevich . The symbolic melodrama of infidelity, obviously under the influence of the brothers Kvey - all the roles are played by real insects, which Starevich painstakingly manipulates. On the way to work, Mr. Beetle enters the strip club "Blithely dragonfly", where he meets a hot beauty- nodding. Shown in the Underground Color program. Demonstrated at the Castro Theater, accompanied by improvised live music ^[10]
• 2007 - Gardens in the fall (France, Russia, Italy, 2006) Otar Ioseliani
• 2007 - Dreams about fish (USA, Russia, Brazil, 2006) Kirill Mikhanovsky

2008-

• 2008 - Alexandra (2007), Alexander Sokurov
• 2008 - Mongol (Germany, Kazakhstan, Russia, Moldova, 2007), Sergey Bodrov
• 2008 - Traveling with Pets (2007), Vera Storozheva
• 2009 - Wild Field (2008), Mikhail Kalatozishvili
• 2009 - Tulip (2008) Sergey Dvortsevoy
• 2010 - Russian Lessons (2009) Olga Konskaya, Andrey Nekrasov
• 2011 - How I spent this summer (2011), Alexey Popogrebsky . Added to the program

Golden Gate

Golden Gate is the main competition of the film festival. There are documentary, animated, short films, experimental films and videos, children's films and films for television. The rules require that the San Francisco Bay Area be the premiere for competitive films. And so that films are not launched before the film festival in commercial cinemas or electronic media of any kind. Three jury determine the winner in each of the fifteen nominations:

Top documentaries. Golden Gate Prize

• Cognitive documentary

• 2011 - Crime after crime, Yoav Potash (USA, 2011)
• 2010 - The Last Train Home, Lixin Fang (Canada, China, 2009)

• Documentary

• 2011 - Better than this world, Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway (USA, 2011)
• 2010 - Pianomania , Lilian Frank and Robert Kibis (Austria, Germany 2009)
• 2005 - The Czech Dream , Philip Remunda and Vit Klusak (Czech Republic, 2004)

• San Francisco Bay Area Documentary

• 2011 - Better than this world , Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway (USA, 2011)
• 2010 - Suspect, Roberto Hernandez, Jeffrey Smith (Mexico, 2009)

Prize New Directors

FIPRESSI Prize

Best short films. Golden Gate Prize

• Short documentary
• Game short
• Animated Short
• New Views
• San Francisco Bay Area Short, First Prize
• Short Bay Area , Second Prize
• Film for youth
• Film for boys
• Works for children and families
• TV feature film
• TV gaming short
• TV game documentary
• TV Documentary Short

Founding Director's Prize

This award is awarded each year to the master of world cinema in memory of the film festival founder Irving Levin. ^[11] Last laureates:

• 2011 - Oliver Stone ^[12]
• 2010 - Walter Salles ^[13]
• 2009 - Francis Ford Coppola
• 2008 - Mike Lee
• 2007 - Spike Lee
• 2006 - Werner Herzog
• 2005 - Taylor Hackford
• 2004 - Milos Forman
• 2003 - Robert Altman

Peter J. Owens Prize

Named after the benefactor of art and philanthropist Peter J. Owens ( born Peter J. Owens ) (1936–1991), this prize is awarded to an actor whose work is “an example of brilliance, independence and integrity.” ^[14]

• 2011 - Terence Stamp
• 2010 - Robert Duval
• 2009 - Robert Redford
• 2008 - Maria Bello
• 2007 - Robin Williams
• 2006 - Ed Harris
• 2005 - Joan Allen
• 2004 - Chris Cooper
• 2003 - Dustin Hoffman

Canbara Prize

The Canbara Prize is given for outstanding scenarios. Maurice Canbar Eng. Maurice Kanbar ) is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco. The winners in different years were:

• 2011 - Frank Pearson
• 2010 - James Chamus
• 2009 - James Toback
• 2008 - Peter Morgan
• 2007 - Robert Town
• 2006 - Jean-Claude Career
• 2005 - Paul Haggis

Mela Novikov Prize

Named after the legendary distributor from San Francisco, Mel Novikov ( born Mel Novikoff ) (1922-1987), the prize is awarded to a person or organization that has enriched and diversified the film community of the San Francisco Bay Area . ^[15] Winners of recent years:

• 2011 - Serge Bromberg
• 2010 - Roger Ebert
• 2009 - Bruce Goldstein
• 2008 - James Lewis Hoberman
• 2007 - Kevin Brownlow
• 2005 - Anita Monga
• 2004 - Paolo Cherchi Usai
• 2003 - Manny Farber

Golden Gate Prize A close look

The Prize Glance is distinguished by the achievements of a director working in a documentary, author of short films, animation or working on television. Winners:

• 2011 - Matthew Barney
• 2010 - Don Herzfeldt
• 2009 - Lourdes Portillo
• 2008 - Errol Morris
• 2007 - Heddy Honigmann
• 2006 - Guy Madden
• 2005 - Adam Curtis
• 2004 - John Els
• 2003 - Pat O'Neill
• 2002 - Fernando Birri
• 2001 - Kenneth Enger
• 2000 - Vera Hubley
• 1999 - Johan van der Keuken
• 1998 - Robert Frank
• 1997 - Jan Schwankmayer

Midnight Prize

Promising young American actor and actress of independent and Hollywood cinema, who brought in their roles amazing intelligence, talent and depth of character. ^[16] Last winners:

• 2011 - Clifton Collins Jr. and Zoe Saldana
• 2009 - Evan Rachel Wood and Elijah Wood
• 2008 - Rose McGowan and Jason Lee
• 2007 - Rosario Dawson , Sam Rockwell

Movie Country Address

Every year the festival invites the leader in the world of cinema to report on the problems of cinema. The past speakers were:

• 2003 - Peter Sellars
• 2004 - Tilda Swinton
• 2005 - Brad Bird
• 2006 - B. Rubin Rich
• 2007 - Michelle Cyment
• 2008 - Kevin Kelly
• 2009 - Mary Ellen Mark
• 2010 - Walter Murch
• 2011 - Christine Wachon

• Official site
• Festival history
• San Francisco Film Society

• Festival of Russian culture "Russian Evenings"
• Russian Cultural Center in San Francisco
• Museum of Russian Culture in San Francisco