The festival begins tonight with the showing of Being: Café Tacvba, which follows the popular Mexican rock group of the same name. It shows at 7 pm. at the Embarcadero and on the 18th at 1 p.m. at the Opera Plaza.  The festival goes through September 25th.

The full schedule is here.

Don’t forget to see the screening of La Bicicleta Vieja or The Old Bicycle, by the very talented Mission Loc@l contributor  Claudia Escobar. It’s  a nine-minute short on Don Rafa’s a bike repair shop in the Mission and it will be shown on Saturday, the 17th at 1 p.m. at the Opera Plaza, and on September 24th at 3 p.m. the Mission Cultural Center.

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