ATA: CROSSROADS 2026 program 4: bury it in the garden

A community partnership with San Francisco Cinematheque

As a centerpiece, Maryam Tafakory’s Daria’s Night Flowers—“draw[ing] upon dozens of Persian-language films, both classics and obscurities, to weave a tale of jealousy, muted ambition, and creative suppression” (Michael Sicinski)—grounds a program of quiet incantations, rituals of remembrance, intergenerational traumas and healings and domestic anxieties. Works exploring mysteries within the everyday, losses latent in quotidian spaces.

SCREENING:
of the sun, that it exists (du soleil, que ça existe) (2025) by Charlotte Clermont (Canada); digital video, b&w, sound, 9 minutes. Exhibition file from AV-arkki. Jones Street (2025) by Silvia Turchin (US); digital video, color, sound, 11 minutes. In the Heavenly Cutting Room (2025) by Emma Penaz Eisner (US); digital video, color, sound, 3 minutes. Wildflower Season (2025) by Kathleen Quillian (US); digital video, color, sound, 8 minutes. گل‌های شب ِدریا Daria’s Night Flowers (2025) by Maryam Tafakory (Iran); digital video, color, sound, 16 minutes. Exhibition file from Square Eyes Film. (for once I dreamed of you) (2025) by Kate Solar (Canada); digital video, b&w, sound, 6 minutes. Exhibition file from Winnipeg Film Group. I Was There (2025) by Kamila Kuc (USA/Poland); digital video, color, sound, 13 minutes.
TRT: 66 minutes

PROGRAM TICKETS: $12 General/$10 Cinematheque Members, Gray Area Members & students (with ID)
FESTIVAL PASSES: $85 General/$70 Cinematheque Members, Gray Area Members & students (with ID)

image: Jones Street (2025) by Silvia Turchin