San Francisco Metro: Fri, Nov 13, 2026 · Film & Screening · East Bay · 3 events · data version 20261021-173303
7:30 PM · Paul Dresher Ensemble: Brainwash Movie Festival - Day One · Dresher Ensemble Studio (Oakland) · film · rating 9
dresherensemble.org · details The movies shown at the Brainwash Movie Festival are a great mix of original humor, experimental art movies, innovative animation, and short live-action stories with high production values. The moviemakers are unique and skillful storytellers, and the movies themselves pack a real punch into anywhere from 5 to 18 minutes.
4:00 PM · Waikiki Brothers · Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) · film, live_music · rating 6
bampfa.org · details Yim Soon-rye’s cult classic captures a secret history of 1990s South Korea—when economic malaise was the norm and K-Pop was still a faraway dream—as told through its cover bands, sad power ballads, and faded resort towns. Staggering from one depressing gig to another offseason hotel, the now middle-aged misfits of the Waikiki Brothers band can feel their youth disappearing and their misfortunes mounting with every passing beat.
7:30 PM · The Inheritance · Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) · film · rating 6
bampfa.org · details A dying businessman sets off a family scandal by announcing that his fortune will go to his illegitimate children in Masaki Kobayashi’s melodrama, a wry condemnation of Japanese postwar materialism, perfectly chilled by Toru Takemitsu’s jazzy score.