About us
Meet others who deliberately seek out challenging foreign, avant-garde, and experimental films screened in San Francisco or Berkeley. After each film, we will get together for conversation at a cafe.
If you, like me, also enjoy thought-provoking literature, check out my Classic Literature and Cafes Club: http://www.meetup.com/Classic-Literature-and-Cafes
Upcoming events
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Free Screening: How to Power a City (2024)
San Francisco Public Library Main, Lower Level, Latino/Hispanic Room, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA, USThe San Francisco Public Library screens How to Power a City (2024) as part of its Everybody's Climate 2026 program series.
How to Power a City explores the front lines of the clean energy revolution. From solar adopters to hurricane survival and communities fighting to keep the lights on, this documentary showcases a diverse group of people leading the way to our nation’s clean energy future. It is the first clean energy documentary that puts communities at the center and showcases local solutions in the US and Puerto Rico, while also highlighting women and people of color leading renewable energy projects.
Director: Melanie La Rosa
NR, 56 mins., 2024. Closed captions (CC) in English.More info about the film: https://sfpl.org/events/2026/07/16/film-how-power-city
More info about Everybody's Climate 2026: sfpl.org/everybodysclimate11:45 Meet in SFPL's Latino Room (lower level) at 100 Larkin St.
12:00 The film starts at 12 p.m.
1:00 After the film we will stay for a brief post-screening conversation.2 attendees
Free Screening: A Radical Thread (2026) + Q&A with Director Jeanne Finley
San Francisco Public Library Main, Lower Level, Latino/Hispanic Room, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA, USThe San Francisco Public Library screens A Radical Thread (2026) as part of its Everybody's Climate 2026 program series.
In this soulful, gorgeous new documentary by Jeanne C. Finley, a back-to-the-land community fights off corporate Goliaths intent on environmental devastation while using the same collective ethos to stitch an 83-foot tapestry that visualizes their story.
Set against the dramatic scars of 19th century hydraulic gold mining, A Radical Thread follows a Sierra Foothills back-to-the-land community as they invent national models of sustainability in their fight against the corporate goliaths of mining, logging and damming. The community's 17-year collaborative project stitching an 83-foot tapestry visualizes the Ridge's story in twelve narrative embroidered panels. Now, as they face their greatest threat of all, climate-driven wildfires, they pass their knowledge of environmental justice to the next generation.
"A Radical Thread beautifully weaves together the stories, told through a set of tapestries, of poets, back-to-the-land settlers, and the region's original Native peoples along the San Juan Ridge near the Yuba river California. Despite waves of disruption - from the Gold Rush to mining and now climate-driven wildfires - this film highlights a community's deep resilience and enduring connection to place.--Thomas Kersen, Associate Professor of Sociology, Jackson State University
Director: Jeanne C. Finley
NR, 70 mins., 2026. Subtitles (SDH) in EnglishPlease stay for the post-screening Q&A with director Jeanne Finley.
More info about the film: https://sfpl.org/events/2026/07/26/film-radical-thread
More info about Everybody's Climate 2026: https://sfpl.org/everybodysclimate12:45 Meet in SFPL's Latino Room (lower level) at 100 Larkin St.
1:00 The film starts at 1 p.m.
2:15 After the film we will stay for a brief post-screening Q&A with director Jeanne Finley.3 attendees
Past events
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