FILM: Over several years, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan filmed Last Train Home, which follows a couple who make the annual New Year's exodus, along with 130 million other migrant workers, from China's cities to their rural home villages for the holiday -- the world’s largest human migration.
7:15 and 9:15 p.m. // Red Vic Movie House (1727 Haight St) // $6-9
COMEDY: SF Sketchfest presents Monsters of Podcasting, "five men, two podcasts, one spectacle, and a seemingly endless series of awkward backrubs." The event features the creators and hosts of You Look Nice Today, an audio-based Journal of Emotional Hygiene, along with the hosts of Jordan, Jesse, Go!, a freewheeling comedy podcast about life in your twenties and everything else.
8 p.m. // The Eureka Theatre (215 Jackson St) // $20
MUSIC: Get a taste of East Bay experimental music with three Oakland bands tonight. Experimental jazz trio, Beep, celebrate the release of their new album, City of the Future. Also in the line-up are Dinosaur Feathers and The Careerers.
9 p.m. // Hemlock Tavern (1131 Polk St) // $6