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NEW ITALIAN CINEMA
Lecture 21
Friday, November 20, 6:30 pm; Saturday, November 21, 1:00 pm
NEW ITALIAN CINEMA
Sea Purple
Friday, November 20, 9:15 pm; Saturday November 21, 6:30 pm
NEW ITALIAN CINEMA
Vincere
Sunday, November 22, 5:45 pm & 9:00 pm
FILM ARTS FORUM
SFFS Film Arts Forum: Sundance Confidential
Monday, December 7, 7:30 pm (7:00 pm door)
KINOTEK
Catherine Galasso: Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice
December 12–13, 8:00 pm
SF360 FILM+CLUB
Steven Severin: Music for Silents
Tuesday, January 12, doors 7:00 pm, show 8:00 pm
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C Level
Maeve Murphy
C Level is a feature-length documentary which takes an inside look at the human side of breast cancer through the eyes of Christy Medrano, a 36-year-old single Filipino American woman. We follow her from post lumpectomy through a bilateral mastectomy with reconstructive surgery, chemotherapy and beyond. A former stand-up comedian, Christy uses her humor and wit to confront breast cancer head on and return to the stage to do what she loves most: making people laugh.
The Campaign
Christie Herring
The Campaign rides the daily emotional rollercoaster of the people working to stop Proposition 8, the 2008 initiative ending gay marriage in California by amending the state constitution. Granted exclusive access to the "No on 8" headquarters in San Francisco, the film offers an intimate portrait of committed individuals inside a pressure cooker, compelled by both circumstance and their passionate beliefs to go far beyond their everyday selves.
Canvas of a City
Nadia Shihab
As a Texan master planner blurs the boundaries between creation and destruction, an Iraqi painter moves deeper into her own painful requiem for her family’s demolished neighborhood in northern Iraq. With a lens on Lubbock, Texas—the site of the “largest private redevelopment project in the nation”—Canvas of a City is both a meditative elegy to vanishing cities, and an intimate look at the creative minds behind large-scale urban transformations.
Children of the Amazon
Denise Zmekhol
Filmmaker Denise Zmekhol returns to the Amazon, visiting the children she photographed 15 years earlier, to see what became of their lives in the vanishing rainforest. Using the photos as a starting point, Denise will hear the stories and concerns of the indigenous Surui, Negarote and rubber tapper community members.
Chinese Couplet
Felicia Lowe
A daughter’s quest to end a legacy of secrets, lies and shame born of her mother’s illegal immigration to America reveals the consequences of economic privation, war, exclusion, and the long term impact of the veiled experience on four generations of Chinese American women and their identities, even as American citizens. Part memoir, part history, part investigation, the discoveries made profoundly change the relationship between mother and daughter and serves as a cautionary tale in the ongoing debates about unwanted immigrants.
Chocolate
Justine Jacob and Alex D. da Silva
A story about commitment, passion and food, Chocolate is about Frederick, an unorthodox American entrepreneur committed to social action who partners with Diego, a mystical Brazilian cacao farmer, to create exceptional organic chocolate at the first source-to-bar factory in Brazil. Chloe, a world renowned chocolate connoisseur, who recently collaborated with a Peruvian co-op to do the same thing, joins them down in Bahia. As they seek to change the world through chocolate, they themselves are transformed.
City of Borders
Yun Suh
City of Borders follows the regulars at Jerusalem's only gay bar, a place that brings together Israelis and Palestinians who risk their lives by challenging society's greatest taboos. Inside this sanctuary, patrons of all nationalities, religions and sexual orientations create a community among people typically viewed as each other’s enemy. Click the link below to view a ten-minute trailer, with the user name “freedom” and password “shushan.”
City of White Gold
Geordie Lynch
The discovery of silver in 1859 propelled San Francisco from a chaotic mining boomtown into a spectacular world-class metropolis. Wealth from the Comstock Lode sent San Franciscans into frenzy. Anything became possible. But as extraordinary lives rose with the opulence of the City, the lives of many others were cast into ruin. This historical documentary will tell the epic stories of the City and of the individuals who built the West on Comstock silver.

Collectible
Ellen Lake
Collectible is a series of short documentaries that investigate collecting, obsession and archiving. This work explores diverse styles and modes of collecting and celebrates unusual, small collections found in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
Common Sky
Kathy Carlson, Yovel Schwartz
Common Sky follows a cross section of American combat veterans from four generations as they bring War into focus from enlistment to extraction. From the weather and food to the visceral specifics of combat and the compounded cost of their experience, they tell each other’s stories until only one remains. It is a soldier’s tale, told with unflinching honesty and unrelenting sensory and emotional details that illuminate the indelible mark of War’s enduring cycle.
Connected
Tiffany Shlain
Mixing powerful visuals, humor, and serious messages, Connected takes audiences on a stream-of-consciousness ride through the interconnectedness of humankind, nature, progress and morality at the dawn of the 21st Century. This film, discussion and Internet project explores the surprising links between biology, technology, and culture, illuminating the complex relationships between our actions and the world.
Conversations with Clowns
Dalia Vidor
Through her conversations with clowns Dalia the Clown reveals the inner world of clowning and uncovers the hidden hierarchy among clowns based on skill level, performance venue and type of performance. This compelling and educational film seeks to dispel many misconceptions about clowns and offer an opportunity for families to come together to laugh and learn.
Corner Store
Katherine Bruens
Corner Store is a feature-length documentary that will illuminate the life of the man behind the corner store, and follows this man through the major changes that take place in his life as, after ten years of sacrifice, and separation, this patient, gentle man returns to Palestine to bring his family to join him in his new life in San Francisco.
Counting to Five
Robert H. Martin, Jonathan Joiner
Since deciding its first gay rights case more than 50 years ago, the Supreme Court has become a battleground in the fight for gay and lesbian equality. These are the true stories of gays and lesbians who've had their day in court and the hidden, surprising stories of how the court came to some of its most controversial decisions.
Cultural Samurai
Sean Ferry
Cultural Samurai documents three living Kendo masters: a son whose father introduced the martial art to the US at the turn of the century, a boy that returns to Japan before WWII and a Japanese man who reservedly comes to the US after escaping from North Korea. The focus is on their collective goal; live by way of the sword.

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