San Francisco Metro: Sat, Nov 14, 2026 · Film & Screening · East Bay · 3 events · data version 20261021-173303
7:30 PM · Paul Dresher Ensemble: Brainwash Movie Festival - Day Two · 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
Spheres – Martin Gerigk 5:52
Hello Susan – Susan Weiss 1:48
Corpo Organico – Yasmin Mawaz-Khan 5:21
Can This Be Reel?
3:30 PM · Taxi Driver · Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) · film · rating 6
bampfa.org · details After he takes a job as a taxi driver to cope with chronic insomnia, ex-Marine Travis Bickle (Robert “You talkin’ to me” De Niro) begins to see the dark city as one vast cesspool of crime and concupiscence: raunchy streets by night, seedy porn theaters by day, and only one bright spot—the angelic Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a worker for a political campaign. When his angel takes it on the wing, Bickle decides to clean the streets of their depraved human debris.
6:30 PM · Little Forest · Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) · film · rating 6
bampfa.org · details A young professional leaves Seoul life behind for the markedly different pace of a rural village and learns to “make her own time” in this sweetly flavored adaptation of a famed Japanese manga. Alone but never lonely, our heroine visits with two friends (and a cute dog) and recalls her single mother, but mostly she devotes her days to harvesting, planting, and cooking. (Its multiple loving food montages make Little Forest arguably Korea’s best-ever foodie film.)