SF Film festival comes to Park Theatre SF Film festival comes to Park Theatre (April 24, 2002)

Aficionados of international, cutting-edge and independent movies don't have to travel to San Francisco to view some of the offerings of the 45th San Francisco International Film Festival.

The Park Theatre in Menlo Park will show 10 of the films selected for the festival from Sunday, April 28 through Wednesday, May 1.

Advance ticket sales begin April 24, and a festival pass is available for $45; film society members get a $5 discount. For information, go to the film festival Web site at www.sffs.org/Fest02, or call the Park Theatre at 326-6843.

In San Francisco, the film festival runs from April 18 through May 2 at the Pacific Film Archive and the Castro and Kabuki theaters.

Following are screenings at the Park Theatre, 1275 El Camino Real in Menlo Park:
Sunday, April 28

** "Go for Broke," at 1:15 p.m., a documentary about war widows set in a town near Sarajevo.

** "Pier Paolo Pasolini," at 3:45 p.m., a portrait of the Italian filmmaker who was killed in 1975.

** "Cet Amour-La," at 6:30 p.m., a story about a love affair between French writer and intellectual Marguerite Dumas and a younger man.

** "Read My Lips," at 8:45 p.m., a French film about a hearing-impaired secretary who gets involved with an ex-con.
Monday April 29

** "The Milk of Human Kindness," at 7 p.m., a French film about a panicked mother who abandons her children.

** "The Princess Blade," at 9:15 p.m., a futuristic thriller from Japan about a rogue assassin avenging her mother's death.
Tuesday, April 30

** "The Ruination of Men," at 7 p.m., a black comedy from Spain about the murder of an amateur baseball player.

** "Teknolust," at 9:15 p.m., an American farce about gene altering and human cloning. Brad King, a former Menlo Park resident, is the producer.
Wednesday, May 1

** "Truly Human," at 7 p.m., an offbeat fable from Denmark about a naive man searching for his parents.

** "La Spagnola," at 9:15 p.m., a coming-of-age story set in the Italian and Spanish neighborhoods of 1960s Australia.