This year’s San Francisco International Film Festival is in full swing! The festival started on April 19 and continues through May 3. I’ve only attended one event – Buster Keaton Shorts with a live musical accompaniment by Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs – and it was so much fun! I love it when current musicians perform original soundtracks while a classic silent film is playing at the historic Castro Theatre.

I plan to attend a number of new films over the next five days. Here are my picks:

Sunday 4/29:
- Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel at 6:45 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
- Land of Oblivion at 3:15 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
- I saw Marina Abramovic’s 2010 MOMA retrospective and it was incredible. I’m so excited to see the documentary Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present at 5:40 p.m. at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley
- The Law in These Parts at 6:15 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
- One of my favorite documentaries from SXSW is playing at the SFIFF: The Source at 6:15 p.m. at Film Society Cinema

Monday 4/30:
- Back to Stay at 4 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
- Leave Me Like You Found Me at 12:30 p.m. at Film Society Cinema
- Off Label at 6:30 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
- The Exchange at 9:30 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
- The new film from Marjene Satrapi: Chicken with Plums at 6:15 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
- Porchlight: True Stories from the Frontiers of International Filmmaking at 9:15 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
- Where Do We Go? At 3:15 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas

Tuesday 5/1:
- Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel at 6:45 p.m. at the Film Society Cinema
- Hysteria at 9:30 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
- Off Label at 3:30 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
- The Law in These Parts at 2:30 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
- The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller with a live score by Yo Lo Tengo at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. at SFMOMA

Wednesday 5/2:
- Back to Stay at 9:30 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
- Off Label at 9 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
- Chicken with Plums at 12:30 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas

Thursday 5/3:
- This year’s festival closes with Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey at 7 p.m. at the Castro Theatre
- Hysteria at 9:30 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
- I cannot wait to see Francis Ford Coppola’s new film Twixt at 8:15 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas