SFIFF: Golden Slumbers (Davy Chou, Cambodia/France, 2011)

Note: Showtime is 9 p.m. Tickets are $10.50 as part of an SFIFF member CineVoucher 10-pack or $12.50 as part of an SFIFF non-member CineVoucher 10-pack. A la carte tickets are $11 for SFIFF members, $13 for SFIFF non-members, $12 for students, seniors and the disabeled, and $8 for children, available at the SFIFF Web site.

Tickets can also be purchased in person at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas... [read more]

Note: Showtime is 9 p.m. Tickets are $10.50 as part of an SFIFF member CineVoucher 10-pack or $12.50 as part of an SFIFF non-member CineVoucher 10-pack. A la carte tickets are $11 for SFIFF members, $13 for SFIFF non-members, $12 for students, seniors and the disabeled, and $8 for children, available at the SFIFF Web site.

Tickets can also be purchased in person at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas (1881 Post St.), 3:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. daily through April 19, or at the designated venues during the festival (cash only). Tickets CAN and WILL sell out, so get yours ASAP.  We'll meet in the ticket holders' line, and anyone who has trouble finding the venue or the group can call Alby at 917-584-5971.

The San Francisco International Film Festival -- the longest-running film festival in the Americas -- returns for its 55th edition, screening nearly 200 works and presenting more than 200 filmmakers and industry guests from April 19 to May 3.

Documentary filmmaker Davy Chou's debut feature, which traces the glory days of Cambodia's pre-Khmer Rouge cinema, has earned raves at festivals across Asia and Europe.

Synopsis: Cambodia's film industry peaked from 1960 to 1975, producing hundreds of works spanning romance to B-grade horror.  Then the nation fell to the Khmer Rouge, and with it fell the cinema -- along with many of the filmmakers themselves.

Now, French-Cambodian documentarian Davy Chou gathers what remains of the Golden Age -- the industry's survivors, their memories, and long-deserted movie palaces -- for this retrospective and appreciation.

Trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mI5Eozrt28

"Elegantly assembled and deeply moving" -- Richard Kuipers, Variety

"Instructive and poignant viewing ... A fragmentary tapestry of memory that says a lot about the traces cinema leaves on our lives, and the energy that keeps stories burning even after the medium that conveyed them has been lost." -- Screen Daily

Official selection of the Berlin, Busan, Fribourg (Switzerland), Hong Kong, Salaya (Thailand) and Human Rights (Switzerland) film festivals

We'll chat over a drink afterward, if anyone's willing and able!

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