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Today we will open the show with a conversation with another director: Marci Jarmel, Speaking in Tongues, which screens at the SFIFF Thursday, May 7, 2009, at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas at 2:30 p.m. Again visit www.sfiff.org For children learning to be bilingual and bicultural raise questions about what it means to be American. We will then speak with Pamela Yates, director of "Reckoning," which screens at the San Francisco International Film Festival Tuesday, May 5, 6 p.m. at Pacific Film Archive in at UC Berkeley, and Wednesday, May 6, 6:15 at Sundance Kabuki in San Francisco. Visit www.sfiff.org The documentary looks at the early days of the International Criminal Court, a body formed by the United Nations to prosecute high-profile national criminals in places like Uganda, Congo, Sudan, and Columbia. The film focuses on Luis Moreno-Ocampo, a charismatic lawyer hoping to bring those wrongdoers to justice. One wonders, once again why the United States is exempt from prosecution for its criminal decisions, su