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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 (4+)
See all- Free Screening: "12th Hour" and "Earth Emergency"San Francisco Main Library Latino/Hispanic conference room A, San Francisco, CA
The San Francisco Public Library continues July’s Everybody's Climate film series with a free screening of two short documentaries, 12th Hour and Earth Emergency.
12th Hour
Can humans solve the climate crisis? 12th Hour delves into humanity's psychological resistance to ecological change, and why such changes are needed in order to avoid an irreversible cataclysm. Much of our population currently lives with hopeful delusions about climate change. These delusions, many of which have developed naturally as part of human evolution, hamper our ability to meaningfully address a problem with the spatial and temporal scope of climate change. If humanity has any hope to survive the changes that we have already locked into our climate, it is necessary to be honest with ourselves and our limitations. 12th Hour lays out our biases so that we may overcome them.Director: Susan Kucera
NR, 52 mins., 2021. Closed captions (CC) in English.Earth Emergency
Narrated by Richard Gere and featuring the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg, Earth Emergency explores how human activity sets in motion Earth’s own natural warming mechanisms, releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and further warming the planet. Leading climate scientists examine this missing piece of the climate puzzle which is pushing the climate to a tipping point.Director: Susan Gray
NR, 52 mins., 2021. Closed captions (CC) in English.More info about the films: https://sfpl.org/events/2025/07/17/film-12th-hour-earth-emergency
More info about Everybody’s Climate 2025 program series: 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.
2:15 After the film we will stay for a brief post-screening conversation.
2:30 We will meet across the street at Gyro King (25 Grove St.) for more conversation. - Free Screening: "Pacific Mission"San Francisco Public Library: Latino Room A/B, San Fransisco, CA
The San Francisco Public Library continues July’s Everybody's Climate film series with a free screening of the documentary Pacific Mission.
Pacific Mission follows the unprecedented challenge undertaken by the Plastic Odyssey crew in the heart of the Pacific Ocean: to extract and recycle over 10 metric tons (22,000 pounds) of plastic waste piled up along the shores of Henderson Island—a remote 15-square-mile atoll holding the unfortunate record for the highest density of plastic debris in the world. This “impossible mission” is a race to protect nature, raise global awareness about the plastic crisis, and empower the local Pitcairn Island communities to transform waste into building materials.
Director: Pierre De Parscau
NR, 60 mins., 2025. Closed captions (CC) in English.Plastic Odyssey is a global project to reduce plastic pollution in the ocean by creating a worldwide network of local recycling initiatives. The project is supported by various actors who all share the desire to build a world in which plastic waste does not end up in the Ocean.
Fabien Lamaison is a social and climate entrepreneur and the U.S. Director of Plastic Odyssey Fund.
More info about the film: https://sfpl.org/events/2025/07/20/film-pacific-mission-qa-plastic-odysseys-fabien-lamaison
More info about Everybody’s Climate 2025 program series: sfpl.org/everybodysclimate
1:15 Meet in SFPL's Latino Room (lower level) at 100 Larkin St.
1:30 The film starts at 1:30 p.m.
2:35 After the film we will stay for a brief post-screening Q&A and conversation. - Free Screening: "The Power of Big Oil"San Francisco Public Library: Latino Room A/B, San Fransisco, CA
The San Francisco Public Library continues July’s Everybody's Climate film series with a screening of The Power of Big Oil, a three-part documentary that examines the fossil fuel industry’s history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change. The Power of Big Oil traces decades of missed opportunities and the ongoing attempts to hold Big Oil to account.
Directors: Jane McMullen, Gesbeen Mohammad, Robin Barnwell
NR, 3 hrs 10 mins., 2022. Closed captions (CC) in English.Please stay for the post-screening Q&A with Chelsea Linsley, Senior Attorney with The Center for Climate Integrity
The Center for Climate Integrity is a nonprofit organization that supports communities in efforts to hold oil and gas corporations accountable for deceiving the public about their harmful products.
Chelsea Linsley is a Senior Attorney based in Oakland, CA. Chelsea has over eight years of experience holding major industries accountable for the protection of the environment and human health. She joined the Center for Climate Integrity in 2022 and supports the organization’s legal strategies on climate change and insurance.
Everybody’s Climate 2025: Connect with others to address the climate crisis in ways that are meaningful to you, from poetry and music to science and practical action.
More info about the film: https://sfpl.org/events/2025/07/24/film-power-big-oil-qa-chelsea-linsley
More info about Everybody’s Climate 2025 program series: sfpl.org/everybodysclimate11:45 Meet in SFPL's Latino Room (lower level) at 100 Larkin St.
12:00 The film starts at 12 noon
3:30 After the film we will stay for a brief post-screening Q&A
3:45 We will meet across the street at Gyro King (25 Grove St.) for more conversation.
