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(INDIA/FRANCE, 2021, 96 mins, Bengali and Hindi with English subtitles)

Saturday, October 21 @ The Roxie Theater, SF

1:00pm:

A brilliant, dreamlike, poetic exploration of the political and social changes occurring in India, this film tells its story through a series of letters a young female student reads aloud to an absent lover, accompanied by a variety of documentary images and an evocative music score. An astonishing fragmentary work that witnesses India’s resurgent extreme nationalism.

21st Annual SF International South Asian Film Festival – Beyond Bollywood!  October 20-22 The Roxie Theater, San Francisco. This year’s festival showcases edgy narratives, fun Indie films, and inspiring  documentaries from South Asia and its Diaspora, including stories from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, France, Italy, UK, Canada and the USA.

For programs and tickets, please visit: www.thirdi.org

More information and tickets: A Night of Knowing Nothing

MARIE LOSIER:FELIX + KUCHARs:WENDEL SAMSON +

Outrageous, energized, and oh so campy, Marie Losier‘s loving portraits of world- famous artists and performers have long delivered deliciously on the international festival circuit, but now we’re specially blessed with her spunky esprit IN PERSON, as she’s just arrived in town for her 6-week Residents shoot. Tonight she’ll share her newest bouillabaisse about OC fave Felix Kubin, a genius German musical prankster profiled in all his glorious goofiness! AND Marie is joined onstage by none Other than Mike Kuchar, not only the subject of her Bird Bath, and Beyond, but also the inspired cine artiste behind the ever more relevant sexual-identity puzzler The Secret of Wendel Samson, starring Red Grooms! AND dearly departed Kuchar twin George remains present in our hearts and minds via Marie‘s momento mori Electrocute your Stars. Free Bud Lites to support their trans stance! $12

SHAPING SAN FRANCISCO‘s 25th B-DAY BASH!OC is overjoyed to host the 25th Birthday celebration of our stalwart Mission District cohort Shaping SF! We’ve been privileged to witness the birth and continued growth of this enlightened Psycho-Geographic org, and tonight were collaborating on a program that is in fact ON our shared neighborhood! Amidst the cake, snacks and drinks, the much-beloved Vero Majano steps forward with a slate of of films and videos that serve as compelling testimonies to the wrenching changes in the ‘hood over the past half-century, starting with Ray Balberan’s little-seen Blame It on the Reds. PLUS Vero’s own I Reminisce, Al Hernandez‘ That Mission Rising, a chapter from the film based on Michelle Tea‘s Valencia, Viva 16, and A Young Girl’s Poem. We round out the evening with Sabrina Alonzo’s Mischief at 16th and Florida. Chris Carlsson and LisaRuth Elliott are also in the house to reflect on a quarter-century of their indispensable research, writings, and guided tours. $10