SIFF 2019 index
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Films sorted by date Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday April 30 May 1 May 2 May 3 May 4 Note: Links marked with a bullet (•) are completed reviews. Links marked with a dash (-) are place-holders for unfinished reviews, and will go to a login page instead of a review, so don't bother clicking through on them. Summary pages (without bullets or dashes) should all be live links; most have mini-reviews of films from the same days. • Afterlife (Hiernamaals) - Jim Allison: Breakthrough - Mouthpiece • Non-Fiction (Doubles vies) - The Sound of Silence - Van Goghs • American Factory - Maiden - Fall of the American Empire press and donors' preview - members' preview
• summary summary summary May 5 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 9 May 10 May 11 - We Are the Radical Monarchs - Frances Ferguson - Sink or Swim (Le Grand Bain) - Art of Self-Defense - Olympic Dreams - Honeyland - Yomeddine - Anthropocene: The Human Epoch - Wild Rose - Roll Red Roll (press screening for press only) - The Nightingale SIFF planning brunch, film friends' party summary summary summary summary May 12 May 13 May 14 May 15 May 16 May 17 May 18 - Emma Peeters - 3 Faces (3 Rokh) - Running with Beto - The Woman Who Loves Giraffes - Le Chocolate de H - David Crosby: Remember My Name - Kifaru - Brittany Runs a Marathon (press screening for press only) (press screening for press only)
- Shadow (Ying - not a SIFF film) - Official Secrets • Sauvage / Wild • SIFF opening night: Sword of Trust - Saturday film and party: Pity the Lovers (Vesalings Elskendur) summary summary summary summary summary (no films for us today) - summary May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 May 23 May 24 May 25 • Secret Festival #1
("J" saw Sibel instead.)
- Banana Split
(J saw Jean-Paul Gaultier: Freak and Chic instead.) - The Announcement (Anons) - A Faithful Man (L'homme fidele) - #Female Pleasure (J missed.) - What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael - The Family Picture Show (ten shorts) - Fly Rocket Fly - Ms Purple (J missed.) - Top End Wedding (J missed.) - Tel Aviv on Fire Lest We Forget (Gegen das Vergessen) (J saw.) - All My Loving (Geschwister) - No. 1 Chung Ying St (Zhōng yīng jiē 1 hào) (J missed.)
(J saw Sonja - The White Swan.) - Celebration - Crystal Swan (Darya Zhuk) Enormous: The Gorge Story (J saw.) - Another Day of Life (Jeszcze dzien zycia) (J saw The Invisible Witness.) Blinded By the Light (J saw.) - Spies (Spione) (archival) (J saw Shorts Fest Opening Night.) Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts (J saw.) summary summary summary summary summary summary (no films for me) summary May 26 May 27 May 28 May 29 May 30 May 31 June 1 • Secret Festival #2
- Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
- Close Encounters of the Gay Kind (eight shorts)
Sgaawaay K'uuna (Edge of the Knife) with short film "dukʷibəɫ swatixʷtəd" ("Changer's Land") (J saw.) - Piranhas (La paranza dei bambini) - Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins - Watch List (Maria) (J saw We Are the Radical Monarchs again, with guests "K" and "M".) - Them That Follow - Greener Grass - Ghost Fleet - The Days to Come (La paranza dei bambini) - Midnight Family - Socrates - As the Earth Turns (archival) - EXT. Night (Leil Khargi) - Late Night and Centerpiece Gala
Swinging Safari (J saw.) - Cities of Last Things (Xing Fu Cheng Shi) summary summary (no films for us today) summary (J took the day off.) summary and my birthday summary - summary (no films for us today) summary June 2 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 6 June 7 June 8 • Secret Festival #3 - An Almost Ordinary Summer (Croce e delizia) - House of Hummingbird (Beol-sae) (J missed.) • A Tribute to Regina Hall - Long Time No Sea (Zhǐyǒu dàhǎi zhīdào, 只有大海知道) - Driveways (J missed.) - The Realm (El Reino) (J missed.) The Ground Beneath My Feet (Der Boden unter den Fussen) - Carmen and Lola (Carmen y Lola) Sakawa (J saw.) - Aurora (J missed.) summary summary summary summary summary (no films for us today) summary summary June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 • Secret Festival #4
Best of SIFF schedule: - Yesterday (J missed.) SIFF is on post-festival vacation Monday through Wednesday. Carmen & Lola (We saw June 1.)
Sink or Swim (We saw May 8.)
International Falls We Are the Radical Monarchs (We saw May 6; J saw it twice.)
Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins (We saw May 29.)
Top End Wedding (I saw May 22.)
Official Secrets (We saw May 15.) Our Bodies, Our Doctors
House of Hummingbird (I saw June 5.)
The Extraordinary Journey of Celeste Garcia
Best of SIFF 2019 Shorts: Audience Award Winners SIFF closing night gala closing night, summary going-away dinner party, summary (We didn't see any Best of SIFF screenings.) Fool Serious potluck party, summary June 16 June 17 June 18 June 19 June 20 June 21 June 22
Best of SIFF Vai
The Awakening of the Ants Yuli
Best of SIFF 2019 Shorts: Jury Award Winners Tel Aviv On Fire (We saw May 23.)
Q Ball The Woman Who Loves Giraffes (We saw May 16.) Films and events sorted alphabetically Note: These are incomplete after May 25.
- 3 Faces (3 Rokh) - May 14
• Afterlife (Hiernamaals) May 1
- All My Loving (Geschwister) - May 20
• American Factory - May 1
- The Announcement (Anons) - May 20
- Another Day of Life (Jeszcze dzien zycia) - May 22
- Anthropocene: The Human Epoch - May 9
- Art of Self-Defense - May 9
- Banana Split (I saw but J didn't.) - May 19
Blinded By the Light (J saw.) - May 24
- Brittany Runs a Marathon - May 16
- Celebration - May 22
- Crystal Swan (Darya Zhuk) - May 23
- " Dancer By the Sea" (short film) - May 25
- Crystal Swan ( Darya Zhuk) - May 23
- David Crosby: Remember My Name - May 14
• Non-Fiction ( Doubles vies) - May 1
- Emma Peeters - May 13
Enormous: The Gorge Story (J saw.) - May 25
- A Faithful Man (L'homme fidele) - May 21
- Fall of the American Empire - May 3
- The Family Picture Show (ten shorts) - May 25
- #Female Pleasure (J missed.) - May 22
- " Flipped" (short film) - May 25
- Fly Rocket Fly - May 20
- Frances Ferguson - May 7
Lest We Forget (Gegen das Vergessen) (J saw.) - May 24
- All My Loving ( Geschwister) - May 20
• Afterlife ( Hiernamaals) May 1
- Honeyland - May 7
The Invisible Witness (J saw but I didn't.) - May 23
Jean-Paul Gaultier: Freak and Chic (J saw but I didn't.) - May 19
- Another Day of Life ( Jeszcze dzien zycia) - May 22
- Jim Allison: Breakthrough May 2
- " A Kalabanda Ate My Homework" (short film) - May 25
- Kifaru - May 15
- " The Last Day of Autumn" (short film) - May 25
- Le Chocolate de H - May 13
- Sink or Swim (Le Grand Bain) - May 8
Lest We Forget (Gegen das Vergessen) (J saw.) - May 24
- A Faithful Man ( L'homme fidele) - May 21
- Maiden - May 2
- " Ming" (short film) - May 25
- Mouthpiece - May 3
- Ms Purple - May 21
- The Nightingale - May 9
- No. 1 Chung Ying St (Zhōng yīng jiē 1 hào) (J missed.) - May 21
• Non-Fiction (Doubles vies) - May 1
- Official Secrets - May 15
- Olympic Dreams - May 6
- Pity the Lovers (Vesalings Elskendur) - Saturday party film #1 - May 19
- " Rocket Boy" (short film) - May 25
- " Rollers" (short film) - May 25
- Roll Red Roll - May 7
- Running with Beto - May 15
- " Sam's Dream" (short film) - May 25
• Sauvage / Wild - May 16
- Secret Festival #1 (I saw but J didn't.) - May 19
- Secret Festival #2 - May 26
- Secret Festival #3 - June 2
- Secret Festival #4 - May 9
- Shadow (Ying - not a SIFF film) - May 14
Shorts Fest Opening Night (J saw but I didn't.) - May 23
Sibel (J saw but I didn't.) - May 19
- Sink or Swim (Le Grand Bain) - May 8
- " Slurp" (short film) - May 25
Sonja - The White Swan (J saw but I didn't.) - May 21
- The Sound of Silence - May 2
- Spies (Spione) - May 22
• Sword of Trust - SIFF opening night - May 16
- Tel Aviv on Fire - May 23
- Top End Wedding (J missed.) - May 22
Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts (J saw.) - May 24
- Van Goghs - May 3
- Pity the Lovers ( Vesalings Elskendur) - Saturday party film #1 - May 19
- What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael - May 23
• Sauvage / Wild - May 16
- Wild Rose - May 6
- We Are the Radical Monarchs - May 6
- The Woman Who Loves Giraffes - May 16
- Shadow ( Ying - not a SIFF film) - May 14
- Yomeddine - May 8
- No. 1 Chung Ying St ( Zhōng yīng jiē 1 hào) (J missed.) - May 21
- " Zog" (short film) - May 25
Special events:
SIFF press and donors' preview April 30
SIFF members' preview May 1
SIFF planning brunch, film friends' party May 5
SIFF opening night • Sword of Trust - May 16
Saturday party film #1 - Pity the Lovers ( Vesalings Elskendur) - May 19
Centerpiece Gala - Late Night - June 1
A Tribute to Regina Hall (without the film) - June 2
- going-away dinner party June 10?
- Fools' potluck party June 22? Summaries by date
SIFF press and donor' preview (April 30)
SIFF members' preview (May 1)
summary (May 1)
summary (May 2)
summary (May 3)
SIFF planning brunch; film friends' party (May 5)
summary (May 6)
summary (May 7)
summary (May 8)
summary (May 9)
summary (May 13)
summary (May 14)
summary (May 15)
summary, opening night (May 16)
summary (May 17)
summary, first Saturday party (May 18)
summary (May 19)
summary (May 20)
summary (May 21)
summary (May 22)
summary (May 23)
summary (May 24)
summary (May 25)
summary (May 26)
summary (May 27)
summary (May 28)
summary, birthday (May 29)
summary (May 30)
summary (May 31)
summary (June 1)
summary (June 2)