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A star-studded event with a great line-up of independent features, documentaries and shorts, this year's San Diego International Film Festival is also big on parties and includes the famous Culinary Cinema. Screenings and events are taking place in an assortment of venues across the city.
The festival runs from 10 to 14 October.
San Diego Latest Reviews
In the Kenyan bush, a crackdown on ivory poaching forces a silver-tongued second-generation poacher to seek out an unlikely ally in this fly-on-the-wall look at both sides of the conservation divide.
Two estranged sisters are driven to extremes when their mother dies, leaving them with one week to pay back her mortgage.
On their first date, Alex and Zoe venture out to see a movie at a local cinema. The film ends and the two become so engaged in a heated discussion that they fail to notice the cinema closing, leaving them locked inside.
Secrets resurface after a woman returns to her family's village for a wedding.
A student finds herself wounded and hunted by dangerous criminals after taking a short cut through the Appalachian mountains.
Two of Queen Anne's acolytes jockey for position.
Women left in debt by their dead husbands' crimes conspire to pull off a heist.
A millennial American woman befriends a Lebanese housewife and disrupts her ordered life. One night they become accidental partners-in-crime.
A screenwriter recruits a group of eccentric characters to go and find a missing teenage girl, with the intention of turning the search into a true story script.
A history of the mistreatment of Native American peoples.
San Diego International Film Festival Features
Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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