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SUMMARY:INTRO TO NONFICTION STORYTELLING WITH ALKA RAGHURAM
DESCRIPTION:FREE – seating is limited.\nRegister here \nHave a Story You Can’t Wait to Tell?\nThe “Intro to Nonfiction Storytelling” class is a free\, 2-hour introduction to shaping real life into a cinematic narrative. This workshop will help storytellers develop tools to transform personal experience or a topic they are passionate about into a story with structure. Participants will gain a sharpened story concept. \nReady for the next steps beyond “Intro To Nonfiction Storytelling”?\nCheck out Alka’s 4-Week Documentary Writing Intensive\, an in-person development lab designed to help you transform raw material into narrative clarity. Over four focused weeks\, you will move from idea to articulation — shaping a documentary concept with structure\, voice\, stakes\, and ethical intention. \nSundays\, April 12 – May 3\, 2026\n2-4pm\nArtists’ Television Access\, San Francisco\nMore info and class registration: https://www.junoon.pictures/junoonlabs \nAlka Raghuram is an award-winning filmmaker and a multidisciplinary artist. She has made several fiction\, experimental\, and documentary films. She was awarded the L’Oreal Woman of Worth Filmmaker Award for her script The Conqueror at Tribeca All Access. Her script Ayna was a finalist at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. Alka frequently collaborates with other artists to create narrative performances and installations. Some of her collaborations include “Yatra” with Kathak and Flamenco dancers Pandit Chitresh Das and Antonio Hidalgo Paz; “Agni” with choreographer Charlotte Moraga and musician Alam Khan\, and a photo\, video and art installation Inspired by Burqa Boxers at the Locarno Film Festival. She recently received Creative Work Fund for a multimedia project called “Invoking The River” about the river Yamuna’s mythological significance and its environmental degradation\, in collaboration with Chitresh Das Institute of dance. \nWINNER – Locarno Film Festival\, co-production market top prize: Grant Open Doors\nWINNER – Westlake International Documentary Festival\, IDF Forum: Director of the Year
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/intro-to-nonfiction-storytelling-with-alka-raghuram/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of the Extraordinary Work of Avie Luthra
DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Avie Luthra!\nFor Opening Night\, 3rd i Festival is thrilled to honor the creative genius of award-winning British-Indian director and screenwriter Avie Luthra with a showcase of his comedic\, nuanced\, complex\, and socially insightful short films. Join us for an inspiring retrospective of his brilliant narratives that lift up stories of immigration\, relationships\, identity\, gender\, sexuality\, and social justice\, followed by a Q&A with the director! \nThe program features such works as FAMILY BUSINESS\, an entertaining spoof on a South Asian Scottish marriage entrepreneur (winner of Best British Short Film); SHOPKEEPING\, a sharp comedy on an Indian shopkeeper who also runs a local protection racket; and CROSS MY HEART\, a hilarious critique of racism within the South Asian British community (winner and special commendation award at the British Film Institute). \nThe evening also includes poignant\, socially nuanced films like BABY\, about a young girl whose sex education class at school changes her views on life (winner of the Royal TV Society Award). And finally\, LUCKY\, a groundbreaking film about a 10-year-old South African orphan who leaves his Zulu village to make his own life in the city of Durban. He is full of hope only to find no one will help him\, except an elderly Indian neighbor struggling with her own racial prejudices (nominated for 43 international awards and shortlisted for an Oscar).
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/a-celebration-of-the-extraordinary-work-of-avie-luthra/
LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026,Festival Screenings and Events,festivals,films,Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261010T130000
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SUMMARY:Sand City
DESCRIPTION:SAND CITY is a lyrical and atmospheric exploration of isolation\, the human need for connection\, and the small acts of survival that bind us to the world. In this arthouse experimental film\, director Mahde Hasan explores Dhaka\, Bangladesh\, where the landscape and its inhabitants share a profound connection: sand. \nThe main characters\, Emma and Hasan\, have parallel lives that intersect through their solitude\, urban alienation\, dysfunction\, and the strange things they need to survive in this metropolitan wilderness. Emma is searching for sand for her cat’s litter\, while Hasan needs it to support his glass business. The sand and the city\, for their part\, are shifting\, uncertain entities hiding a multitude of secrets. \nWe’re introduced to the metropolis\, captured in all its raw\, unvarnished beauty through the vibrant yet subdued grainy\, textured composition of French cinematographer Mathieu Giombini. He paints a moody\, gritty\, and beautiful picture of Dhaka—not just of a place\, but of a living\, breathing entity in permanent construction. The city feels as much a part of the story as the characters themselves\, reflecting the loneliness\, frustration\, and struggles of its people. \n
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/sand-city/
LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026,Festival Screenings and Events,festivals,films,Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261010T150000
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SUMMARY:TechnoCats
DESCRIPTION:At India’s elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT)\, a “Cat” is someone who aces everything. These engineering schools have produced the CEOs of Google\, Microsoft\, IBM\, and other tech giants. In the documentary TECHNOCATS\, director Gautam Sonti\, an IIT alumnus himself\, explores the cost and meaning of excellence\, the reality behind the rankings\, and the quiet resilience of young minds navigating one of India’s most intense institutions. \nOver seven years\, Sonti follows seven students from seven parts of India\, beginning with their first semester and continuing into the third year of their careers. What emerges is a portrait of Indian society and its educational institutions that push young people to the brink. Interwoven with their journeys are four of the filmmaker’s classmates from 35 years ago\, creating an intergenerational dialogue about the relentless pursuit of material success. \nCompeting against one million applicants\, the seven students gain admission to IIT\, but are soon disillusioned. Insightful and compassionate\, TECHNOCATS depicts young adults forced to grapple with themselves and family expectations\, and to confront a fiercely competitive world.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/technocats/
LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026,Festival Screenings and Events,festivals,films,Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261010T171500
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SUMMARY:THE GREAT SHAMSUDDIN FAMILY
DESCRIPTION:A witty\, razor-sharp\, heartwarming social satire\, acclaimed filmmaker Anusha Rizvi directs her latest tour de force (her first film\, PEEPLI LIVE\, was India’s offering to the Academy Awards and the first Indian film to screen at Sundance). Set within a Delhi apartment and unfolding during one day\, the comedy cleverly turns domestic chaos into a microcosm of modern India. \nWriter and academic Bani is 12 hours away from her application deadline and is constantly interrupted by her family (sisters\, cousins\, and even aunts) barging in with requests for help. As can be expected from a codependent Desi family\, chaos ensues. The film sensitively allows its characters to be flawed\, nuanced\, and well-rounded human beings. The comedy might start off as quirky but almost immediately feels relatable\, modern\, cosmopolitan\, and politically aware. \nRizvi balances humor and heartbreak with masterly precision\, crafting a tapestry of generational tension\, urban neurosis\, and female resilience. Exuberant and lively\, THE GREAT SHAMSUDDIN FAMILY delivers a politically astute portrait of family\, faith\, sisterhood\, and survival in contemporary India. \n
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/the-great-shamsuddin-family/
LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026,Festival Screenings and Events,festivals,films,Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261010T194500
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SUMMARY:Lali
DESCRIPTION:Sarmad Sultan Khoosat’s LALI is a darkly comic\, colorful\, and layered thriller in which ghosts walk among the living and prophecies weigh heavily on a young Punjabi married couple and their families. \nThe bride\, Zeba\, is a “cursed” woman\, her three previous fiancés all dying mysteriously before marriage. She marries Sajawal in a vibrant wedding full of quirky family drama and humor. Beginning as an exuberant social satire\, centered on the pressures and complications of marriage\, sexuality\, and family expectations\, the tone and genre gradually shift\, moving into a darker exploration of gender roles\, jealousy\, psychological horror\, and the supernatural. \nKhoosat also produced JOYLAND (Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize; 3rd i Festival 2023)\, and LALI is cut from the same creative cloth. There is notable crossover in the director-producer team\, cast\, and visual language\, including the use of saturated colors and heightened atmosphere. Yet while the two films echo one another in theme and texture\, LALI resists easy categorization\, opening up a cinematic landscape rarely seen onscreen: vivid\, emotionally heightened\, and alive with ghosts both literal and social. \nPREMIERED – 76th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale Panorama)\, 2026\n
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/lali/
LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026,festivals,films,Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261011T121500
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SUMMARY:Eternal Trees\, Eternal Mountains
DESCRIPTION:Q&A with directors Harsha Reddy and Chris Chekuri!\nIn 1998\, young American student Harsha ventures into the forests of South India to study tigers. What he finds instead changes the course of his life. Over the next two decades\, he returns to the villages of the Chenchu people\, a tribal community whose roots run as deep as the ancient forests they call home. \nShot across breathtaking forest landscapes\, with aerial imagery\, original artwork\, and rare archival material\, ETERNAL TREES\, ETERNAL MOUNTAINS is as visually arresting as it is emotionally urgent. Joined by his historian friend Chris\, the two men embark on something more than a documentary. It is an act of witnessing. In kitchens and on porches\, beside cooking fires and in the shadow of the sacred temple of Srisailam\, they listen. They dig through folklore\, historical records\, and popular culture to unearth stories that have long been buried beneath a single\, reductive label: primitive tribal group. What emerges is a portrait of a community that is complex\, resilient\, and alive. \nView trailer.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/eternal-trees-eternal-mountains/
LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026,Festival Screenings and Events,festivals,films,Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261011T140000
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SUMMARY:Ghost School
DESCRIPTION:Magical\, sweet\, visually evocative\, and gently paced\, GHOST SCHOOL\, directed by British-Pakistani filmmaker Seemab Gul\, captures a child’s pursuit of answers in a community weighed down by fear of ghosts and misinformation. \nThis delightful and poignant fable explores corruption from a child’s perspective. Journeying through an expansive\, sun-drenched landscape\, ten-year-old Rabia encounters people from all classes and backgrounds in her quest to uncover the reasons why the only school in her village is closed. Rumor has it that the school is haunted and the teacher is possessed by a jinn. As the ghostly tales about the school take over the village\, Rabia increasingly comes to doubt them. \nIn this coming-of-age and hopeful feature\, filmmaker Seemab Gul’s experience in both documentary and narrative filmmaking\, particularly her focus on the current political landscape\, informs the film’s insightful critiques of feudal power\, gender injustice\, and the state’s neglect of rural education. These heavy themes are skillfully balanced and sensitively humanized through young Rabia’s clear-eyed perspective and her refusal to accept silence and superstition in place of truth. \nPREMIERED – Toronto International Film Festival\, 2025\nPREMIERED – Berlinale Film Festival\, 2026\n
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/ghost-school/
LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026,Festival Screenings and Events,festivals,films,Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261011T160000
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SUMMARY:The Loyal Man
DESCRIPTION:Specially recorded Q&A with director Lawrence Valin!\nTHE LOYAL MAN\, a riveting and romantic gangster thriller directed by audience favorite\, French-Sri Lankan Lawrence Valin\, is essential viewing for “Valin” fans. Following last year’s rave reviews for his sold-out opening night film LITTLE JAFFNA\, 3rd i follows up with his first French-Sri Lankan Tamil film to immerse us in the gritty underworld of iconic Paris\, France. \nValin adeptly performs double duty\, acting and directing with aplomb. In the role of the character Aathi—an enforcer for the mob—he must confront his allegiance to his mob boss when he falls in love with a trafficked woman\, Minale\, who is under the boss’s control. Does loyalty matter more to Aathi than the cost of human life? Will Minnale gain her freedom from her enforced obligations? \nSkillfully blending elements of the Western gangster genre with the vibrant aesthetics of South Indian cinema\, Valin explores complex portraits of identity\, displacement\, and belonging within the Tamil community in Paris. \nPreceded by the short film HOMEBODY\nHOMEBODY / Shruti Parekh\n(USA\, 2026\, 21 min\, narrative)\nFacing eviction after her mother’s death\, a young artist searches for creative ways to defend her right to stay in her family’s Brooklyn apartment. \n
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/the-loyal-man-2/
LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026,festivals,films,Screenings and Events
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