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The 55th edition of the San Francisco International Film Festival opens today, April 19th with the French period drama "Farewell, My Queen" by Benoît...

It'll be a TIFF does Sundance this year in the Spotlight Program as the majority of the films programmed in the section (which staffers state, "regardless of where these films have played throughout the world, the Spotlight program is a tribute to the cinema we love") are films that moved from Cannes to TIFF en route to Sundance or had their world premieres at TIFF and are moving into Park City.

Maintaining their longstanding policy of locking up as many possible Foreign Oscar nomination contenders as feasibly possible, Sony Pictures Classics are adding Where Do We Go Now?, Lebanon's official entry at the Oscars to their slate.

TIFF's co-directors Cameron Bailey and Piers Handling have got us salivating with the smorgasbord list of world premiere offerings for next September. Opening film comes as a surprise, as we've haven't heard much about it, but seeing that doc filmmaker Davis Guggenheim has a great relationship with the festival, From The Sky Down a doc about U2 (20 or so years after Phil Joanou's U2: Rattle & Hum) will take centre stage. Doc-programmer guru Thom Powers makes sure that the fest will be a rocking good edition by also adding Pearl Jam Twenty from fanboy Cameron Crowe.

Regardless what larger themes or shifting styles that are discovered or get attached to this year's Cannes batch, one of the major conversation starters is the prominence of global female filmmakers at the festival. There are 22 feature films by female directors (and I'm not even including the short films) which should be a record for any festival in recent memory.