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SUMMARY:Cine+Mas: Carmela and the Walkers (Carmela y los caminantes)
DESCRIPTION:Near the border between Ecuador and Colombia\, Carmela\, an Afro-Ecuadorian woman\, opens her home to thousands of Venezuelan migrants who cross South America on foot in search of a better life. For years\, she has sustained this work with her family\, despite scarce resources. But when the pandemic closes the borders and her husband is unexpectedly imprisoned\, Carmela must assume her role: crossing illegally into Colombia to support her family and feed the arrivals. The crisis confronts her with her emotional past and reconnects her with her children\, who now help her. With an intimate and observational look\, the film explores migration\, family\, and resilience from the heart of a woman who gives her all. \nTickets
URL:https://www.atasite.org/event/cinemas-carmela-and-the-walkers-carmela-y-los-caminantes/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261024T140000
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SUMMARY:Cine+Mas: Bonds of Belonging Shorts Program
DESCRIPTION:Step into a captivating block of short films that explore the unexpected roads to healing\, bravery\, and profound human connection! This spirited collection follows remarkable characters navigating life’s biggest turning points—from lowrider cruises in Los Angeles and surreal medical mysteries to deeply moving bonds that transcend language. Inspiring\, heartfelt\, and beautifully resilient\, these storytelling gems remind us of the incredible strength found when we open our hearts to one another. \nProgram: \nzul: Isolated by grief after her sister’s passing\, Azul struggles to cope amid the turmoil of a fractured family. Yearning for connection\, she spots The Lady Lowriders. Enamored by their energy\, Azul begins to find respite from her grief alongside the ladies\, and a new path forward emerges while on her first cruise around the streets of Los Angeles. \nShow Me How To Die (Enseñame Como Morir): After her grandmother passes away\, a grieving Mexican-American woman becomes fascinated with learning what it feels like to die\, believing it will allow her to feel close to her grandma in death in a way she never felt in life. \n\nHer grief leads her to “The Death Lab”\, a mysterious medical facility that claims to recreate the sensation of dying without actually killing you. Here she embarks on a surreal and deeply personal journey that stretches beyond the confines of life itself. \nHangtown: A 12-year-old Latino kid\, who doesn’t speak a word of Spanish\, finds a father figure in a fleeing Mexican immigrant and takes charge when armed vigilantes close in on both of them. \nPrick: After learning her husband has been in a life-threatening car crash\, Ana must make a difficult decision. \nQuince Candles: A plucky 14 year old runs aimlessly through a dark vineyard as she struggles to break free from her rocky home life\, social pressure\, and the shooting she’s just witnessed. \n\nOur film stars Tatiana Alicia Beltran\, fresh off her acclaimed performance as young Jenni Rivera\, alongside Annie Gonzalez in the recent biopic Jenni. \nThe Shave: A former caregiver returns to a residential home to deliver heartbreaking news to a nonverbal autistic man he once cared for. What begins as an awkward reunion transforms into a deeply human moment of connection through a simple act of care\, a shave. In the quiet between gestures\, both men rediscover trust\, tenderness\, and the enduring bond that transcends language. The Shave is an intimate exploration of love\, loss\, and the beauty of communication beyond words. \nTickets
URL:https://www.atasite.org/event/cinemas-bonds-of-belonging-shorts-program/
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261024T170000
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SUMMARY:Litcrawl: CCA comics live
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URL:https://www.atasite.org/event/litcrawl-cca-comics-live/
CATEGORIES:Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261024T190000
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SUMMARY:Cine+Mas: Family & Resilience Short Film Program
DESCRIPTION:Get ready for a gripping lineup of short films that dive deep into the power of family bonds\, hidden secrets\, and personal resilience! This dynamic collection takes you on an emotional journey from the quiet streets of Puerto Rico and Brazil to high-stakes mysteries right here in California. Packed with heart\, tension\, and unforgettable characters\, these powerful stories shine a light on the lengths we go to protect the ones we love and discover who we truly are. \n\nProgram:\n\n\n\n\nTake Me Home: The estranged relationship between an “always-too-busy” daughter and her mother who suffers from Alzheimer’s comes to a head when the mother escapes from her assisted living facility to search for her husband.\n\n\n\nAmanece: A 9-year-old boy in Puerto Rico navigates the thin line between fantasy and reality after a striking event tears at the fabric of family and safety in the island. \nHolmes: After serving ten years in prison\, Ramiro “Ram” Rosales returns home to Bakersfield to face the recent devastating loss of his mother to a fentanyl overdose. Fueled by grief and a thirst for answers\, Ram partners with his niece\, Addie\, a teenage prodigy who is often underestimated by those around her. As the duo delves into the shadows of their community\, Ram’s streetwise strategic mind and Addie’s lowkey intuitive genius prove to be an unstoppable force against the predators hiding in plain sight. \n¿Desde Cuándo Fumas?: After Learning that his teenage son has gotten into a fight at school and has been suspended\, Arturo\, a young father\, must leve work to pick him up. As they drive back home\, Arturo begins to realize that he may not know his son as well as he thought. \nBraza: Surrounded by silence\, in a small town in the Brazilian countryside\, 16-year-old Analu lives with her mother and little Dani\, who is 2. While making plans to run away with the young man she is secretly dating\, she carries a secret. \nEchoes (Obra): Aurora\, a retired stage actress\, lives in an old boarding house she turned into her home. Now\, her refuge is threatened by the construction of a subway station next door. Surrounded by dust\, noise\, and memories\, she revisits moments from her past and faces solitude\, delusions\, and harsh reality. \nRocketship: Rocketship follows two young sisters\, Iris (11) and Deedee (10)\, living alone in a rundown motel while their mother disappears into episodes of mental instability. When a knock at the door reveals that their mom\, Angel\, has passed out on a playground rocketship across town\, the girls set out to bring her home before anyone else finds her. As they search for their mother\, the journey becomes more than a rescue mission\, it’s a glimpse into the resilience\, tenderness\, and survival instincts that allow them to endure a world that has asked them to grow up too soon. \nTickets
URL:https://www.atasite.org/event/family-resilience-short-film-program/
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261025T140000
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SUMMARY:Cine+Mas: Garden of Silences (Jardim dos Silêncios)
DESCRIPTION:Tuã is a Black pediatric oncologist\, born in Bahia but raised in Italy\, where his mother fled after being imprisoned and tortured during the dictatorship\, while her husband became one of the many disappeared of the regime. Years later\, Tuã returns to Brazil on a journey of reconciliation with his roots. Amid silenced memories and broken ties\, the film reflects on life and death\, love and loss. A drama about reunion\, belonging\, and the silence needed to redefine existence through absence. \nTickets
URL:https://www.atasite.org/event/cinemas-garden-of-silences-jardim-dos-silencios/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261025T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261025T180000
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SUMMARY:Cine+Mas: Oca
DESCRIPTION:Rafaela is a young nun who belongs to a precarious\, almost extinct congregation. For a long time\, she has been having daydreams that eventually come true\, but there is one incomplete\, recurring dream that haunts her mind. At the same time\, she is sent to a nearby town in search of the new archbishop\, with the mission of explaining the situation at the convent and finding guidance regarding her dreams. Along the way\, she will experience extraordinary encounters that will either advance or regress on her path. \nTickets
URL:https://www.atasite.org/event/cinemas-oca/
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261025T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261025T190000
DTSTAMP:20261010T023902Z
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SUMMARY:TINAFF: Program 8
DESCRIPTION:This is Not a Film Festival (also know as TINAFF) is a monthly recurring film showcase\, allowing local Bay Area filmmakers\, artists and creatives to gather\, connect\, and present their work. No submission fees\, no awards\, no gatekeeping. Our goal is to provide a space where truly independent films can be shared and enjoyed the way they’re meant to be; with a live audience. \n 
URL:https://www.atasite.org/event/tinaff-202609-2/
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261028T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261028T190000
DTSTAMP:20260930T204206Z
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SUMMARY:When ICE Melts
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of When ICE Melts\, a documentary on the Minneapolis resistance to the 2025 ICE raids\, capturing the role of unions\, immigrant organizations\, workers’ assemblies\, and rapid response networks in building solidarity against the federal occupation. \nThe film also documents the case of the Minnesota 15 — class members persecuted by the federal government for simple acts of solidarity — and stands as evidence of what happened and what is coming. \nAfter the screening\, filmmaker Kip Hedges will be present to kick off a discussion on how we defend civil liberties in this country\, the role unions must play\, and what it will take to build a real defense front.
URL:https://www.atasite.org/event/when-ice-melts/
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261102T193000
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SUMMARY:Rewards Program: Malignant
DESCRIPTION:A live-scored three-projector celluloid performance with: \n\nMILES LASSI is an interdisciplinary artist based out of Oakland\, CA. As a musician\, he has performed in over 150 cities throughout North America\, Europe and Asia with many different ensembles ranging from the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall to national broadway tours like Ain’t Too Proud\, Dirty Dancing\, and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. Miles is dedicated to creating new media and has done so at the New York Film Festival\, Lincoln Center\, Apollo Theater\, deYoung Museum\, Joyce Theater\, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture\, A.C.T.\, SXSW and Snap Studios/KQED.\n\n\n\nSKYWAY MAN is the alias of keyboardist\, songwriter\, and producer James Wallace. Based in Oakland via Richmond\, VA\, and Nashville\, TN\, he has released seven albums and composed music for Film/TV\, including Joe Pera Talks With You (HBO). Over the past 15 years\, he has toured extensively across the U.S.\, Europe\, and Asia\, performing at festivals like Bonnaroo\, Pickathon\, SXSW\, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass\, and Wilco’s Solid Sound. He has collaborated with Abigail Washburn\, Langhorne Slim\, Erin Rae\, and Maya Hawke\, among others. Brittany Howard once named his band a favorite local act in Rolling Stone\, and his work has been featured in NPR\, The Wall Street Journal\, and Stereogum. He’s produced 20 full-length albums for other artists\, including Bay Area musicians Mikayla McVey\, Milk for the Angry\, and Pancho Morris. Over the past few years he’s developed a practice of live instrumental film scoring using keyboards and sequencers.\n\nZEKARIAS MUSELE THOMPSON (b. 1983\, they/them/their) is an artist based in Oakland\, CA\, and Reykjavik\, IS often working in sonic composition\, mark-making\, photography\, collaborative group practice & performance\, and writing. Their practice is concerned with humanity’s conceptual and emotional organizational structures—and how we bring them into material form. Zekarias has presented solo exhibitions and projects at the Museum of the African Diaspora\, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\, The Lab\, Gray Area\, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History\, and the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies. Zekarias is a co-founder of Working Name Studios\, a collectively owned and organized arts institution with the mission of building institutional stability and equity for underrepresented creative practices\, ideas\, and people. They were part of the Emerging Artist Program at the MoAD for 2024\, and are currently an MFA candidate in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley.\n\n\nELLIE VANDERLIP is a San Francisco-based experimental filmmaker\, performer\, and educator. She received her MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University in 2022. She is a co-director at Oakland’s Shapeshifters Cinema\, on the board of directors at San Francisco’s Cinematheque\, and maintains a studio at Artists’ Television Access. She has hosted filmmaking workshops with the Exploratorium\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, and the University of San Francisco\, and lectures at St. Mary’s College and San Francisco State University. Her primary focuses are found footage experimental documentary\, material cinema\, and expanded cinema performance. Her work has screened nationally and internationally\, including at San Francisco DocFest and Belgrade’s Kinoscope Festival\, and has upcoming writings about alternative archives in Found Footage Magazine.
URL:https://www.atasite.org/event/rewards-program-malignant/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261105T220000
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SUMMARY:Open Screening
DESCRIPTION:ATA’s free community film/video show welcomes short format work or (15 min or less) from all genres. An open forum for independent filmmakers to show their work\, we hold screenings the first Thursday of the month at 8:00 pm. Entries must be received by 7:00 pm on show night. \nSubmissions: To submit a digital file\, email openscreening@atasite.org. For physical media\, label all tapes with name\, contact info\, title\, and length\, and mail to: Open Screening\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110. 1–2 weeks advance submissions recommended. If not\, just walk in before the show.\nMaximum length: 15 min.\nFormats: Digital file (PC or Mac)\, DVD\, miniDV/DV-cam\, VHS\, beta\, 8 mm\, and 16 mm. For 8 mm and 16 mm films give us advance notice. \nShow at 8:00 pm\, doors at 7:30\, FREE
URL:https://www.atasite.org/event/openscreening/2026-11-05/
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261109T190000
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DTSTAMP:20261003T211841Z
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SUMMARY:Studio 26: Fantom Classroom of the Art Institute
DESCRIPTION:A free seminar\, investigating the 16mm experimental films in the collection of the SFAI Legacy Foundation and Archives.
URL:https://www.atasite.org/event/studio-26-fantom-classroom-of-the-art-institute-3/2026-11-09/
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261203T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261203T220000
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SUMMARY:Open Screening
DESCRIPTION:ATA’s free community film/video show welcomes short format work or (15 min or less) from all genres. An open forum for independent filmmakers to show their work\, we hold screenings the first Thursday of the month at 8:00 pm. Entries must be received by 7:00 pm on show night. \nSubmissions: To submit a digital file\, email openscreening@atasite.org. For physical media\, label all tapes with name\, contact info\, title\, and length\, and mail to: Open Screening\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110. 1–2 weeks advance submissions recommended. If not\, just walk in before the show.\nMaximum length: 15 min.\nFormats: Digital file (PC or Mac)\, DVD\, miniDV/DV-cam\, VHS\, beta\, 8 mm\, and 16 mm. For 8 mm and 16 mm films give us advance notice. \nShow at 8:00 pm\, doors at 7:30\, FREE
URL:https://www.atasite.org/event/openscreening/2026-12-03/
CATEGORIES:Screening
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