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Our SELECTION of FILMS you may enjoy.
Mar 6 ~ First Friday Film Series: Calamity Jane ~ Watch Calamity Jane; the musical comedy about Jane’s saloon and love affair with Wild Bill Hickok. Free for members/$5 general, 7p Charles M. Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa, 707-579-4452, schulzmuseum.org/, events@schulzmuseum.org
Mar 26 - 29 ~ Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival ~ 72 films, 4 special programs. Snapshots of life around the world. Schedule @ sebdocs.org., Sebastopol, sebdocs.org
Mar 27 - 28 ~ Hitchcock Film Fest - Bodega Bay ~ Spend the day enjoying our beautiful Bodega Bay Area, then sit back, relax & enjoy some classics! $12-$30, Check online for Show Times., Bodega Bay Grange, 1370 Bodega Ave, Bodega Bay, chamber@ bodegabayca.org
Sonoma Film Institute 1801 E Cotati Ave, Warren Auditorium, Ives Hall, Rohnert Park, sfi.sonoma.edu, Suggested Donation $5
Mar 6 - 8 ~ My Twentieth Century ~ Director Ildikó Enyedi weaves an intoxicating tale, one that garnered her the Golden Camera award. Suggested Donation $5, 3/6: 7p, 3/8: 4p, 7p
Mar 13 - 15 ~ Becoming Nobody ~ The film captures a loving man full of joy, wit, honesty & wisdom. Suggested Donation $5, 3/13: 7p, 3/15: 4p, 7p
Mar 27 - 29 ~ Memory: The Origins of Alien ~ How did Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece register itself so deeply in our cultural imagination? Suggested Donation $5, 3/27: 7p, 3/29: 4p, 7p
Apr 3 - 5 ~ The Marquise of O... ~ SFI celebrates the centenary of masterful French filmmaker Eric Rohmer. Suggested Donation $5, 4/3: 7p, 4/5: 4p, 7p
Rialto Cinemas 6868 McKinley S, Sebastopol. Showtimes & 707 525-4840, rialtocinemas.com, $8-$35
Mar 3 - 31 ~ Sonoma County Israeli Film Festival 2020 ~ Exploring the human stories & important issues facing Israeli society, & the larger world. Presales: $11 for matinee shows @1p, $14 for evening shows @7p; $12 & $15
Mar 4 ~ Long Strange Trip: The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead ~ 30-year odyssey of the Grateful Dead: the most unlikely success story in rock ‘n’ roll history. $12.50- $14, 12:30p & 6:30p
The 5th Annual Sonoma County Israeli Film Festival,
The World Comes to Sebastopol March 26th–29th Featuring 72 films from 49 countries
This year the Doc Fest (SDFF 2020) takes place March 26-29 when 72 films from 49 countries will be screened at two venues: Sebastopol Center for the Arts and Rialto Cinemas®.
Documentary enthusiasts from places
as near as Occidental and as far away
as Capetown, South Africa will gather
in our little corner of Sonoma County.
They will discuss films over coffee
at Retrograde Roasters, Taylor Lane
and many other purveyors of the bean
that dot our landscape here. They’ll
rush from one venue to the other in
order to listen to a Special Program
at the Center for the Arts and then
catch a slate of short films at Rialto
Cinemas®, stopping quickly at Portico
or Sebastopol Sunshine Cafe along the
way for a quick bite.
Join us as we celebrate the best in documentary and its filmmakers this month. Become a part of SDFF 2020.
Tickets & Schedule now available at sebdocs.org.
takes place March 3-31 at Rialto Cinemas, Sebastopol. The festival seeks to nurture an appreciation of Israeli culture in Sonoma County, exploring the human stories and important issues facing Israeli society, and the larger world. The official selections focus on issues of gender identity, love at old age, the pull between secular life, religion, and paganism, and the Palestinian and Israeli conflict.
The festival features several international award winners and the important Bay Area Premiere of Flawless, a film that explores the life of transgender teens. This festival brings the best and newest films to Sebastopol
All films are on Tuesdays twice on the day, at 1 pm and 7 pm.
FLAWLESS (Coming of Age) – BAY AREA PREMIERE – Tuesday, March 3, 1 pm & 7 pm. Eden has a deeply held secret. A post-show program will follow the 7 pm screening.
TEL AVIV ON FIRE (Comedy) – Tuesday, March 17, 1 pm & 7 pm
Young Palestinian Salam is an assistant on the soap opera “Tel Aviv on Fire.”
THE OTHER STORY (Drama) – Tuesday, March 24, 1 pm & 7 pm
Anat flees the chaos of her secular upbringing for the discipline and comfort of Hassidic life.
LOVE IN SUSPENDERS (Romantic Comedy) – Tuesday, March 31, 1 pm & 7 pm. When feisty, absent-minded widow Tami hits gruff widower Beno with her car, the last thing on her mind is romance.
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