New Film: Bicycle Bride - San Francisco Screenings

Looking forward to seeing this new film Bicycle Bride!

Indian-American Girl meets Swedish Boy: A San Francisco Love Story. Here's a review.

Trailer:



If you live in San Francisco, CA then catch it at VIZ Cinema in Japantown beginning with the premieres this Friday, June 25. It closes at the VIZ on July 1. I can't figure out how/where you can see it if you live in another city, but I did see a mention on the film's Facebook page that it's screening internationally.

Two special San Francisco screening events at VIZ Cinema on June 25 will feature a live Q&A session with Bicycle Bride’s director, Hassan Zee, as well as the film’s actors. A reception featuring hors d’oeuvres and live traditional Indian dancers and music will take place following each June 25 screening at 5:00pm and 8:00pm. (Links will take you to advance tix sale pages.)

VIZ Cinema expands its commitment to innovative filmmaking with the launch of the Bay Area Film Series, an new showcase for the region’s burgeoning community of multicultural independent filmmakers. The first movie of this series is Bicycle Bride.

Check out this fun footage of another Bicycle Bride premiere:

Bicycle Bride Premiere Gala from Perpetual Flicker on Vimeo.

While on the VIZ Cinema website I saw that the theater is screening the 1936 69 minute film "Sisters of the Gion" this Thursday night. I can't make it to the event but am looking forward to watching it online here (broken up into 8 parts.)

Synopsis: Sisters of the Gion follows the parallel paths of the independent, unsentimental Omocha (Isuzu Yamada) and her sister, the more tradition-minded Umekichi (Yoko Umemura), both geishas in the working-class district of Gion. Mizoguchi’s film is a brilliantly shot, uncompromising look at the forces that keep many women at the bottom rung of the social ladder.