Notable selection from 2005 SFIFF:
Must Watch:
- The Forest for the Trees [Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen], Maren Ade
- The Hero [O herói], Zézé Gamboa
- L’Intrus, Claire Denis
- Kings and Queen [Rois et reine], Arnaud Desplechin
- Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda July
- Los Muertos, Lisandro Alonso
- Saraband, Ingmar Bergman
- Tokyo Magic Hour & The Year of Living Vicariously, Amir Muhammad
- Pin Boy [Parapalos], Ana Poliak
- The World [Shijie], Jia Zhang-ke
Should Watch:
- Delamu, Tian Zhuangzhuang
- The Holy Girl [La niña santa], Lucrecia Martel
- Little Sky [El cielito] , María Victoria Menis
- The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear, Adam Curtis
- 10th District Court: Moments of Trials [10e chambre: instants d’audiences], Raymond Depardon
- A Social Genocide, Fernando E. Solanas
- Ronda Nocturna, Edgardo Cozarinsky
ps: some notable omissions that i feel like cribbing about: there is practically nothing from all the remarkable work coming out of Japan this year, the absence of both Hou's Cafe Lumiere and Tsai's The Wayward Cloud, Eugene Jarecki's Why We Fight , blah, blah, blah, ...