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Arts/Culture/Weekend: Bikes, books, gardens, and your mom

Steven Short — Thu, 09 May 2013 22:58:00 +0000

This weekend brings not just Mother’s Day, but National Garden Day, too! Find out some ways to celebrate them both – and where you can exercise your mind and body – in this week’s Arts/Culture/Weekend!

An animated bunch of Oscar nominees

Ben Trefny — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:23:10 +0000

I’ve always been intrigued by the short features that are nominated for Academy Awards every year. Everybody (who watches movies) is familiar with the best picture nominees, the best actors, actresses, and directors. But only recently have I become aware that the shorts that win the same awards are available to be seen as well.

Today on Your Call: What is the power of conveying history through film?

Ali Budner — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:00:00 +0000

Arab Film Festival: Private Sun sheds light on being a Palestinian woman

Hana Baba — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:24:32 +0000

This weekend marks the Arab Film Festival in the San Francisco Bay Area, with 40 films showing this year from all over the Arab world.

The Palestinian short film Private Sun deals with the ironic reality of being Vitamin D deficient in a sun-drenched country like Palestine. It’s increasingly a problem among the country’s women, many of whom cover their bodies in public.

The "ever turning wheel of life" on film

Ben Trefny — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:08:13 +0000

Imagine you can witness the most beautiful, and most disturbing, sights in the world. Riding a hot air balloon over exquisite Burmese temples; descending into poisonous sulfur mines in Java; meeting robot clones in Japan; exploring factory farms in China. These are some of the images of Samsara: a new feature film from Emeryville director Ron Fricke and producer Mark Magidson now showing in Berkeley and San Francisco.