We've selected a dozen promising offerings from each of the two major categories of the 48th San Francisco International Film Festival. Excluded from consideration were films scheduled for what the festival calls the "Big Nights" (the opening and closing and other headliner events), along with shorts and most movies competing for the various awards and prizes.
The list features work by familiar names and unknowns, and includes a strong showing of French films (after the United States, France is by far the most heavily represented nation in the festival). The San Francisco Chronicle's Walter Addiego gives his picks for SFIFF, currently underway in the Bay Area.
