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We welcomed the return of DocFest, your local indie documentary festival, last night with . It wasn’t clear we were actually going to make it in to the theater until about two minutes before it began. There was a long line for the film, which was showing in the Little Roxie, where seats are at a premium. We were pretty psyched to score our folding chair, one of the final two seats in the sold-out theater.

Everybody dance now! Take in a "thought provoking" dance/theater performance with CounterPULSE's Under the Radar tiny caberet featuring an international cast of disabled and non-disabled performers. Consider what it means to be normal. Jess Curtis directs, and the performance takes place at 1310 Mission (at 9th Street). Since it's the first week, tickets are only $10 - 15. Reservations and info, call 415-435-7552 or email info@counterpulse.org .

hungry. Boy were we glad we'd had that burrito (but we must admit, that didn't prevent us from stopping off for a slice after the film). Even if you don’t love pizza, which is hard to fathom, this one's a must-see.

The line snaked down to Albion Street for the teensy Little Roxie theater's screening of Canadian film Scared/Sacred for DocFest, filled with an odd mix of earnest well-scrubbed management consultants with expensive handbags, and less well-scrubbed but just as earnest Global Exchangers and their expensive Guatemalan backpacks. Inside the theater, we sat next to a woman demonstrating some dramatic move she'd learned in yoga involving thrusting her wide-spread legs up in the air to the giggled mortification of her companions, while the man behind us intoned in reaction, "Nothing breaks down the ego like yoga." That's about as good an intro as you'll get for Scared/ Sacred, by a filmmaker named Steve who calls himself "Velcrow Ripper." Mr. Ripper (who did the sound for The Corporation) set out in 1999 to film places on the earth associated with death, destruction, and hopelessness and see if he could find any beauty there. So he sets forth on a whirlwind tour of, among other places: Bhopal, Bosnia, Auschwitz, Afghanistan, Cambodia; New York in what looked like about the week of 9/17/01, Hiroshima, and Israel/Palestine. As our companion noted, "This movie's going to be a real upper." Some moving interviews and (okay, we're going to say it) kind of tedious voiceover, after the jump. Special bonus: the filmmaker screams like a girl when he gets shot at!

Usually, we try as hard as we can to avoid the real world, but we'll make an exception for the fourth San Francisco Documentary Film Festival. There are so many unbelievable films to check out over the festival, which opens tonight and runs through Sunday May 22. Many of the directors of the films and other interesting folks will be making appearances throughout the festival, so if you're a documentary groupie this Festival is the place to be.