WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY: Two by Satyajit Ray, involving imperial intrigue paralleled with the sport of kings in The Chess Players (1977; 7:30 p.m.), plus Sadgati (Deliverance, 1981; 6:35, 9:35 p.m.), about an Untouchable's efforts to arrange a wedding for his daughter.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY: Ray's comedy The Big City (1958; 3:30, 7:30 p.m.), about the changes in a woman's life when she gets a job, screens with Leo McCarey's classic screwball comedy The Awful Truth (1937; 5:50, 9:55 p.m.), with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.
MONDAY & TUESDAY: Theater closed.
UA GALAXY
1285 Sutter (at Van Ness), 474-8700 for venue; 554-5525 and www.aifisf.com for this program. For regular screenings at this multiplex, see our Showtimes page. The 28th annual American Indian Film Festival screens here this week.
WEDNESDAY (Nov. 12): Short films including Gabriel Whiteturkey's Bundle in Good Standing, $5 noon. Gordon Tootoosis and David Hasselhoff star as a mismatched pair accused of robbing a bingo parlor in Don't Call Me Tonto, a Canadian feature credited to the pseudonymous "Allan Smithee" (Native American filmmaker Annie Frazier Henry, credited on the Internet, evidently having taken her name off), $7 7 p.m.
THURSDAY (Nov. 13): Short films including Tracy Jack's REZcovery, $5 noon. Norma Bailey's Cowboys and Indians (Canada) examines the controversial death of Manitoba activist J.J. Harper (Adam Beach), $7 7 p.m.
WHEELER AUDITORIUM
Bancroft & Telegraph, UC Berkeley campus, www.berkeley.edu for venue; www.latinofilmfestival.org for information on this program. This college theater hosts screenings from the Latino Film Festival this week. $7 save as noted.
SUNDAY (Nov. 16): "Amazon" (short films from Brazil and Peru) 10 a.m. Francesca Sanchez (Hernandez, Spain) 12:15 p.m. Lula, A Winner's Journey (Coehlo, Brazil) profiles its activist president 2:15 p.m. The Jewish Film Festival co-sponsors a writer doc, Max Aub (Soler, Spain) 4 p.m. No Shame (Oristrell, Spain), $9 6:15 p.m. Bedtime Fairy Tale for Crocodiles (Cruz, Mexico), $9 8:40 p.m.
YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
701 Mission (at Third Street, in Yerba Buena Gardens), 978-2787, www.YerbaBuenaArts.org. $6 save as noted. This venue's Screening Room is a home for film and video programs of all sorts.
WEDNESDAY (Nov. 12): A Latino Film Festival screening of Out of the Shadow (Kathryn Klassen, Spain/Canada), about women bullfighters, $9 6 p.m. Street Love (Asa Faringer, Mexico), about a former prostitute's struggle against the profession, $9 8:15 p.m.
THURSDAY (Nov. 13): Paul Chan's Bagdad in No Particular Order (2003), video portraits of average Iraqis filmed last January, and his war satire Re: The Operation (2003). $7 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY (Nov. 14): "Ten Perfect Moments," a series of highlights from 10 years of the YBC's screenings, offers two nights of videos of New York's underground music scene, 1975-80, as filmed by Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong. Program 1, "Nightclubbing Greatest Hits," includes performances by Blondie, Talking Heads, Dead Boys, Lounge Lizards, Offs, Dead Kennedys, DNA, Iggy Pop, Cramps, Heartbreakers, John Cale, Bush Tetras, Pylon, Ballistic Kisses, and more 7, 9 p.m.
SATURDAY (Nov. 15): Program 2, "Live From CBGB's 1975-77" and "Modern Music" ("no wave" and art rock from Contortions, Suicide, James "Blood" Ulmer, John Cale, Sun Ra, et al.) 7 p.m. Program 3, "Roots of Hardcore" (Bad Boys, Dead Boys, etc.) and "Danceteria Video Lounge New Wave" (Go-Go's, Kid Creole, and pals) 9 p.m.
TUESDAY (Nov. 18): The Arab Film Festival screens Hany Abu-Assad's Ford Transit (Palestine, 2002), about a cabbie's daily struggle around roadblocks. $7 7:30 p.m.
