What's the Slant Film Festival? Asian-American short films! The Texas-based festival is curated by the co-founder of the thoughtful Asian-American zine Hyphen, and is coming to SF for the first time this year. Movies screening include a short documentary about the 1970 murder of a Japanese-American Berkeley cop, allegedly by Black Panthers; some romances; some movies about troubled relationships between parents and children; and an animated clip about the Superfriends' Filipina maid.

Get tickets here! And, if you're so inspired you want to learn more, there's a pre-festival party on Thursday with the Kearny Street Workshop at space180, at 180 Capp (x Mission and 16th). $2-5, 7 p.m.