If there’s anything common running through these 14 films — which range in length from 5 to 102 minutes — it’s the ghostly whirring of BART trains, either in the background or in the foreground as characters ride (and sometimes dance) in its familiar cars.
A still from “Fire of Love” by Sara Dosa, which shows at the SFFILM Festival on Saturday, April 23 at 1 p.m. at the Castro Theatre and on Sunday, April 24, at 5 p.m. at BAMPFA. The oldest film festival in America returns to in-person movies and events this year, beginning Thursday and running through May 1.
Lovely, but also slyly funny, “Dear Chantal” is a kind of homage to the late filmmaker Chantal Akerman, presented as a series of letters written to the great filmmaker from a property owner, regarding her supposed rental of his beautiful apartment in Coyoacán. Both empowering, inspiring works, Lamar Bailey Karamañites, Pascale Boucicaut and David Felix Sutcliffe’s “Miss Panama” and Rivkah Beth Medow’s “Holding Moses” screen at the “Shorts 3” program Sunday, April 24 at 2 p.m. at the Roxie.
“Shorts 5,” which screens Tuesday, April 26 at 8:30 p.m. at the Roxie, features another standout: Baggio Jiang’s “Live,” a twisty, shocking little crime film about retribution involving a brutal live-stream from the dashboard of an Uber. At 21 minutes, it packs a gut-punch that many feature-length films can’t touch.
“American Justice on Trial” and “Miss Panama” offer similar themes: just because something isn’t a full-blown victory, doesn’t mean it’s a failure.
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