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Film Fest Movies by Bay Area Directors

Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena Lourdes Portillo's documentary about the beloved Tejana singer. Shows with Beca de Gilas: Rebeca's Story, a documentary about a 21-year-old activist attempting to register Chicano voters to beat Proposition 209. April 26, 7:20pm, and April 29, 1pm, at the Kabuki Genghis Blues A documentary about blind San Francisco blues singer Paul Pena, who travels to the Republic of Tuva (set between Mongolia and Siberia) to learn the almost-lost art of Tuvan throat singing, a technique that allows a vocalist to sing several tones simultaneously. Directed by Roko Belic. April 29, 10pm, at the Kabuki Regret to Inform A documentary about war widows made by Barbara Sonneborn, who lost her first husband in Vietnam. Shows with Opening Nights by Camille Servan-Schreiber and Andrew Gilbert, which follows a local jazz singer and her accompanist husband through the chaotic process of pulling a new show together. April 26, 12:30pm, and April 27, 7:10pm, at the Kabuki Under California: The Limit of Time Carlos Bolado's Under California: The Limit of Time is an quiet, moving film about guilt, redemption, art and family history. The movie follows a successful California artist who accidentally runs over and kills a pregnant woman trying to cross the U.S. Mexico border. Searching for solace, he makes a pilgrimage to his grandmother's remote Mexican grave site. May 4, 9:40pm, at the Kabuki [ San Francisco | MetroActive Central | Archives ]