FEATURES
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Red Vic Reprising 'Lesh Sabreen?'
Muayad Alayan, a 24-year-old filmmaker from the only remaining Arab neighborhood in West Jerusalem, was not even aware there was such a think as Palestinian cinema until, as a teenager,... more
NEWS
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San Francisco Film Society Announces Finalists for Film Arts Foundation Documentary Grant
Press Release: The SFFS announced last week the 11 finalists and one honorable mention for the SFFS/Film Arts Foundation Documentary Grant, the newest grant to be offered by... more
CALENDAR
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"Human Rights and Film 2010"—through Mar. 28
A selection of films with a human rights theme continues at YBCA, and includes The Glass House (Sun/14), about four girls struggling toward empowerment in Tehran.
Photo by Hilary Hart/SFFS.
Film and forest
Lisa Merton, (center, with Keith Zwolfer and Linda Blackaby of the San Francisco Film Society) flew in from Burlington, Vermont, to present Taking Root, her documentary about environmental activist and Goldman Environmental Prize and Nobel Prize-winner Wangari Maathai at two screening for Bay Area high school students.
11.13.2008
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