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Fri Jul 25 - Thu Jul 31

SFFS Screen presents: Wonderful Town
$7.50 - $10.50
Tickets

Location
Date and Time
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
1881 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
cross street: Fillmore
district: Japantown/Fillmore

Fri Jul 25 (All day event)
Sat Jul 26 (All day event)
Sun Jul 27 (All day event)
Mon Jul 28 (All day event)
Tue Jul 29 (All day event)

Description
This 2008 Rotterdam International Film Festival Tiger Award–winner is set in the backwater town of Takua Pa, near the Andaman Sea coast of Southern Thailand, where the 2004 tsunami killed thousands of people. Ton is an architect from Bangkok assigned to supervise the reconstruction of a beach hotel. He puts up at a plain, very quiet hotel in town and soon discovers that a pall of sadness hangs over the locals. Na, the beautiful young woman whose family runs the hotel, is one of the few people to respond to him. The residents are clearly haunted by the tsunami and the unpredictability of fate, and a mood of misfortune clings to the green, picturesque hills even on the sunniest day. When a tentative romance blossoms between the laconic man and woman, a ray of hope appears amid the gloom. But Na’s brother Wit, leader of the bored youths who endlessly cruise the local roads on their motor scooters, sees Ton as a threatening outsider.