THE ROAD TO NOD

518 Valencia Gallery 518 Valencia St, San Francisco

TICKETS for THE ROAD TO NOD at 518 Val Sat Feb 3, 3p HERE   Director M.A. Littler – 2007 Germany 88 min – IndieFest 2008 program note:   Aptly described as a “Film Noir Road Movie,” writer/director M.A. Littler’s The Road to Nod is a bibiclly-fueledcrime outing marked by stirring performances and breathtaking black and white cnematography. […]

THE S WORD

Roxie Theater 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA

TICKETS for THE S WORD at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 430p HERE TICKETS for THE S WORD at Roxie Tue Feb 6, 7p HERE   Director Lisa J. Klein – 2017 USA 93 min Bay Area Premiere – Documentary This powerful documentary explores one of the most feared and misunderstood topics in the human experience – suicide.  Putting a […]

Shorts 2: An Animated World

Roxie Theater 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA

Shorts 2: An Animated World showcases a wide variety of animation from around the world. TICKETS for SHORTS 2 at Roxie Feb 3, 430p HERE TICKETS for SHORTS 2 at Roxie Feb 6, 7p HERE     Framed Marco Jemolo, Italy, 7 min FRAMED is a noir animated short-film, which explores the sensitive subject of alienation […]

VIVA

518 Valencia Gallery 518 Valencia St, San Francisco

TICKETS for VIVA at 518 Val Sat Feb 3, 5p HERE   Director Anna Biller – 2007 USA 120 – IndieFest 2007 program note: “I am reworking old sexploitation movies from the 60s and early 70s from a woman’s point of view. Vintage sexploitation films interest me because they revolve around fantasies of a woman’s power over the […]

MOVING PARTS

Roxie Theater 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA

TICKETS for MOVING PARTS at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 7p HERE TICKETS for MOVING PARTS at Roxie Sat Mon Feb 5 7p HERE   Director Emilie Upczak – 2017 Trinidad and Tobago 77 min West Coast Premiere – Drama/Narrative    This quietly gripping drama puts a fresh spin on the subject of human trafficking by introducing us to a […]

KUPAL

Roxie Theater 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA

TICKETS for KUPAL at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 7p HERE TICKETS for KUPAL at Roxie  Sun Feb 4, 2p HERE   Drector Kazem Mollaie – 2017 The Islamic Republic of Iran 81 min Bay Area Premiere – Drama / Middle Eastern   Dr. Ahmad Kupal is a 50-year-old hunter and taxidermist living on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran. Recently, […]

SORE LOSERS

518 Valencia Gallery 518 Valencia St, San Francisco

TICKETS for SORE LOSERS at 518 Val Sat Feb 3, 730p HERE   Director John Michael McCarthy – 1997 USA 90 min – IndieFest 1999 program note:   The winner of Video Eyeball Magazine’s “Best Drive in Movie Award” this is the ultimate in comic magazine delicatessen for fans of punk, horror and sci fi. Featuring the ’50s […]

BLACK CAT

Roxie Theater 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA

TICKETS for BLACK CAT at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 915p HERE TICKETS for BLACK CAT at Roxie Mon Feb 5, 915p HERE   Director Peter Pardini – 2017 USA 85 min Bay Area Premiere – Mockumentary     Black Cat is a satire on true crime documentaries gone wild.  When a near-decade old murder case involving a movie star […]

TOP KNOT DETECTIVE

Roxie Theater 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA

TICKETS for TOP KNOT DETECTIVE at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 915p HERE   Director Aaron McCann & Dominic Pearce – 2017 Australia 87 min – Mockumentary/Comedy    A behind the scenes peak at the greatest television Samurai Drama no one knows and its enigmatic and tragically lost star, Takashi Takamoto. Robots, Product Placement, and island-sized egos fill this […]

KABOOM

518 Valencia Gallery 518 Valencia St, San Francisco

TICKETS for KABOOM at 518 Val Sat Feb 3, 930p HERE   Director Gregg Araki – 2011 USA 86 min – IndieFest 2011 program note:   Kaboom is a wild and sex-drenched horror-comedy thriller that tells the story of Smith (Thomas Dekker), and ambisexual 18-year-old college freshman who stumbles upon a monstrous conspiracy in a seemingly idyllic Southern […]