SFist Tonight

BASTILLE DAY: For one day a year, the French drop their indifference to, well, everything to come together and celebrate the storming of the Bastille way back in 1789. Come join them over on Belden Lane and Claude Lane where the place turns into one big fête. Over at Cafe Claude, Sasha Jacobsen and Friends bust out le jazz hot, and everywhere else? Lots of bubbly, lots of drinking, lots of Chanel No. 5. Presumably. Anyway, if you know of any other happening Bastille Eve parties? (We'd hate to think the only way you celebrated French culture today was by watching that scene in Irréversible on YouTube over and over again.) So, let us know in the comments.

Starts at sundown

FILM: You didn't think a day could go by without a film festival screening, did you? [shakes head knowingly] Well, on the roster for tonight is the 10th Annual Zeitgeist International Film Festival. Tonight's batch of short talking pictures range local filmmaker Danny Plotnick’s Out of Print, "a short about when finding culture was a real treasure hunt," to the Spanish director Ciro Altabás' Made in Japan a short that allows the Zeitgeist to use "International" in its film fest's title. Beer will be flowing heavily, films will screen on the wall in the biergarden, and bring a coat as this evening's weather promises to be refreshingly crisp.

9 p.m. // Zeitgeist (199 Valencia) // $5