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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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The Salmon People
Cory Mann, Luke Griswold-Tergis
A young Tlingit Indian makes a pilgrimage to his ancestral home in remote rural Alaska to spend a summer  living off the land and preparing traditional food, a winters supply of smoked salmon. In doing so he is forced to confront the dichotomy between his history and the modern world he lives in. His personal life story parallels his culture's heart wrenching disintegration and struggle to revitalize itself.
San Quentin Media Project
Tamara Perkins
The San Quentin Media Project (SQMP), also dubbed the Wisdom Project, is a collaborative project between Apple of Discord Productions and the Youth UpRising Multimedia Literacy & Production program (YU Media-LP). In the program, men inside San Quentin are given opportunities to continue an often lengthy and difficult process of building resiliency, leadership and core values. Through media production, they also are encouraged to enter in dialogue with young people from their communities.
Secrets of Life and Death
Michelle Peticolas
Secrets of Life and Death takes a fresh look at death as teacher and transformer. It asks what meaning death has for the way we live. In a three-part collection of personal accounts, ordinary and not-so-ordinary people share potent lessons about living and dying.
Seventh-Gay Adventists
Stephen Eyer, Daneen Akers
John, Mark and Marian grew up in the Seventh-Day Adventist church, a worldwide denomination with 14 million members. They are also gay. Caught in the middle between who they are and a conservative denomination that teaches that homosexual relationships are a sin, they must choose between intimacy and the community they know and trust. Or is there a way to reconcile their faith and their identity?
She Wants to Be a Matador
Gemma Cubero, Celeste Carrasco
She Wants to Be a Matador follows five women from different generations on a journey from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Immersed in the man's world of bullfighting, the characters of the film pursue the same dream as their male counterparts, the glory of dominating the beast. The women are forced to fight not only against the bull but also against historical and political events, which include decades of legal prohibitions and prejudice.
The Signalman
Joseph Walling
Lost at sea with no food or water. Abandoned by the Navy. His
crewmates wounded and dying all around him. The Signalman realizes he must take matters into his own hands if he is to live to see his wife and unborn child. What he does to survive becomes the lore and the burden of a family—and may be one of the greatest survival stories never told.
Soldiers of Conscience
Gary Weimberg
Their country asked them to kill. Their hearts asked them to stop. A portrait of eight U.S. soldiers today, facing the most difficult decision of their lives: to kill or not to kill. Made with official permission from the Army, this film transcends the usual rhetoric of politics and includes both sincere war fighters and sincere conscientious objectors, all of who are wrestling with the demands of duty and the call of conscience. (documentary feature)
Songs Along a Stony Road
George Csicsery, Chris Teerink
Songs Along a Stony Road tells the story of Transylvania’s living folk musicians and of Zoltán Kallós, their guardian angel, intercutting musical performances with scenes from daily life.
Soul of a Nation
Elizabeth O'Connell
Artists have historically been a force for social change and criticism in Iran. But the Iranian revolution dramatically impacted their freedom of expression. Soul of a Nation looks at Iranian artists and their struggles and triumphs in the contrasting environments of censorship (Iran) and expressive freedom (United States).
Sound Tracks
Stephen Talbot
Produced by The Talbot Players in San Francisco, Sound Tracks is a one-hour pilot for a proposed PBS prime time series that explores the world through music. Hosted by public radio’s Marco Werman, along with reporters Alexis Bloom, Arun Rath and Mirissa Neff, the magazine format show will be a mix of journalism, adventure and soul-satisfying music, all aimed at the young at heart. The pilot, “Presidential Suites,” will focus on music related to presidents, ranging from Afro-beat to pop propaganda and a hilarious fake national anthem. 
The Sprocket Ensemble
Nik Phelps
What performance art companies like New York's Wooster Group did to create a forum for unusual stage talents like Spalding Gray, The Sprocket Ensemble project attempts to do for the rich new talents of independent filmmakers and animators. A collaborative performing arts endeavor between composer/performers of live music and directors of short film and animation, The Sprocket Ensemble liberates the excitement of live concert performance to create a new milieu for the appreciation of diverse new forms and talents in the cultural development of American film. The Sprocket Ensemble collaborative series of screenings set to original live musical performance is entitled Ideas in Animation.
Star-Crossed
Florencia Manovil
Star-Crossed tells the story of two lovers, Pia and Carla, who as teenagers share a deep bond and a yearning to instigate change in the world. The film travels the paths they take after separating early in life before meeting again as protester and policewoman. Ultimately, they must learn to integrate compassion and love at its broadest frequency into their lives, or they will fail to truly bring about the social change they seek.
Strings
Crystal Us
Strings is the story of a mother and daughter’s struggle to reunite when they are separated by another dimension as the result of an ice-skating accident. Their struggle to reunite is an allegory for science’s search for a "theory of everything". While the script deals with concepts of superstring theory, it simultaneously deals with the "strings of the heart" and the interconnectedness that exists between all humans and the universe in which we live. (short musical adventure family drama)
Surviving Amina
Barbara Celis
Surviving Amina is an intimate diary on resilience and hope, a compelling lesson on life that explores how we construct meaning from something that defies our understanding: the loss of a child. New York and Italy set the backdrop for this provocative and engrossing portrait of a family of artists through a three year period marked by the Leukemia diagnosis of their second daughter, baby Amina, and the aftermath of the baby’s death.
Swamp Cabbage
Hayley Downs, Julie Kahn
Swamp Cabbage is a dark and sweaty documentary about Hayley Downs, a half-Cracker stuck in Brooklyn who discovers that the eccentric Florida childhood she fled is actually the key to surviving love and loss in an increasingly fragile world. An unlikely collision of rural Florida and urban Brooklyn cultures, Hayley’s tragicomic journey through sunshine-state mythology, pop zeitgeist, toxic relationships, Cracker foodways, and disappearing habitat ultimately changes how we view conservation, community, and the food chain.
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