2023 San Diego International Film Festival
SDIFF | Oct 18-22, 2023
Entries subject to change until after the festival.
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- DirectorAlexander PayneStarsPaul GiamattiDa'Vine Joy RandolphDominic SessaA cranky history teacher at a prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a grieving cook and a troubled student who has no place to go.Opening Night Film
- DirectorKristoffer BorgliStarsLily BirdNicolas CageJulianne NicholsonAn ordinary family man finds his life turned upside down when strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams.Gala
- DirectorRaoul PeckStarsJohn C. BarnettClassie CurleyMelvin DavisA Black family in North Carolina has been harassed for decades by land developers attempting to take their waterfront property.Gala
- DirectorOlivier DahanStarsElsa ZylbersteinRebecca MarderÉlodie BouchezExplores the life of Simone Veil -- the famous French figure who survived the Holocaust and went on to become a leading politician, human rights campaigner, and feminist -- through a series of non-chronological memoriesGala
- DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsJuliette BinocheBenoît MagimelEmmanuel SalingerThe story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin - the fine gourmet chef she has been working for over the last 20 years.Gala
- DirectorMichael FosterStarsBeth GallagherEric CasaliniJosefina Trigueros AguilarWhen a woman estranged from her husband meets with him as a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, they read through the 36 Questions To Fall in Love and she discovers that their love might not be enough to keep them together.
- DirectorÁsa Helga HjörleifsdóttirStarsThorvaldur KristjanssonHera HilmarAníta BriemIn a remote fjord in 1940's Iceland, young farmer Bjarni and aspiring poet Helga begin a passionate, forbidden affair, emotions running as wild as the ocean waves that surround them.
- DirectorSing J. LeeStarsHiep Tran NghiaDustin NguyenDali BenssalahDuring a routine pickup, an elderly Vietnamese cab driver is taken hostage at gunpoint by three recently escaped Orange County convicts.
- DirectorGabriela CowperthwaiteStarsErtharin CousinLee GunnNathan HalversonAn investigative journalist uncovers the money, influence, and alarming rationale behind covert efforts to control the most vital resource on the planet.WINNER - Best Documentary
- DirectorDamian HarrisStarsJared HarrisNicholas HamiltonJamie HarrisHomeless teen, Nate, struggles to find the courage to confront the darkness of his past. When a popular drama teacher takes on the troubled kid, he's not quite prepared for the journey he's undertaking, nor the dark secrets Nate is hiding.
- DirectorHarriet MarinStarsTimuel BlackDanaé CapdevielleHarriet JonesA European filmmaker searches for the truth about her grandfather, the most famous Policy Kings of all times, who rose to the heights of financial and political prominence in Chicago in the 30s, despite discrimination.
- DirectorDan ClarkStarsPatrick BaladiKelly WenhamJack Parry-JonesA young, broke couple kidnap a sleazy politician who decides he can spin the story to his own advantage.WINNER - Best Comedy
- DirectorSean WainsteimStarsRichard ColeJ.J. GreenbergLiam HillAfter festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a painful, blunt and funny dissection of the film and his life.
- DirectorPaloma NozickaStarsCher AlvarezPaloma NozickaElaine RivkinIn the midst of setting up for a mysterious party, a woman tries to stop her flighty younger sister from making a devastating choice.
- DirectorWesley WangStarsDavid MazouzLily CheeEli D GossA graduating high schooler navigates a world of seemingly inevitable chaos by finding order in the number 7.
- DirectorJina MiaoStarsAnna HouScott HuChen Chen JulianA young girl growing up in a Shanghainese gambling den, must protect her friend and survive the violent world of petty gangsters by relying only on her wits.
- DirectorChristina YoonStarsTiffany ChuHong KyungKim Tae-wooLeah, a Korean adoptee raised in America, returns to Korea to search for her birth mother. Leah is met with secrecy from the adoption agency as well as her own family but remains relentless on her solo journey, driven by her longing to discover the truth of her origins.
- DirectorMauricio Rodriguez-PonsAlmudena ToralStarsBaseerLynzy BillingHadiAn Afghan journalist embarks on a journey to find out who murdered her family 30 years ago, only to uncover hundreds of civilians killed in a secretive American-backed program.
- DirectorBen ProudfootStarsNoah CoxJohnny ReyesElda Torres
- DirectorWill N. MillerEd OuStarsWei ZitongOn any given night, tens of thousands of fishermen in China's distant-water squid fleet perform an industrial ballet thousands of miles out on the high seas. With unprecedented access to the extremely remote fishing grounds, SQUID FLEET is a poetic exploration of the motivations of the fishermen, the brutality of systemic labor abuses in the Chinese fishing industry, and the destruction wrought by the commodification of people and nature in our globalized world. It is based on two years of rigorous investigative journalism from the Pulitzer Prize-winning team of The Outlaw Ocean Project.WINNER - Best Short Doc
- DirectorShawn Antoine IIStarsTerry CooperKevin JosephMichelle SmallsKINGDOME explores the remarkable journey of Terry 'Huncho' Cooper and his legendary Harlem basketball tournament.
- DirectorSimon RossStarsNatalia Cordova-BuckleyRyan KwantenVirginia MadsenAfter her husband is devastated by a tragic accident, a devoted wife obsesses over a mysterious portrait that resembles him as he was; but when it starts to terrorize her, she must decide if it's possessed or if she's losing her mind.
- DirectorTyler DavisStarsZae JordanD.J. MausnerAlise Morales
- DirectorMichael GabrieleStarsAngela AielloLaShon BartonBrittanie BoeckWhen a sound guy's attempt to capture "room tone" is constantly thwarted by the noisy antics of his coworkers, he takes extreme measures to achieve silence.
- DirectorLaura LeeStarsPatrick BreenMarceline HugotDaniel SimonsenTrundle is a goblin who sweats a borscht so delicious it has made Mr. Murray's deli world famous, so Murray keeps Trundle in his basement. When Trundle hears that a Regular wants to meet the chef, he hatches a plan to work the counter.