“What should I eat to be healthy?”

Cutting through confusion and busting myths and misconceptions, Michael Pollan shows how common sense and old-fashioned wisdom can help us rediscover the pleasures of eating and avoid the chronic ills so often associated with our modern diet. “Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

From the director of The Botany of Desire.

Based on Pollan’s best-selling book.

Director Michael Schwarz in conversation with Dean Schillinger, MD from the UCSF Hospital and Diabetes Center who is featured in the film.

*There will be vegetarian goodies from La Mediterranee of Noe Valley before the screening.

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San Francisco Premiere

4pm –Roxie

El Somni (The Dream)

The Roca Brothers – a chef, a sommelier and a pastry chef – own Barcelona’s El Celler de Can Roca, named the world’s best restaurant. To celebrate they bring together musicians, poets, painters, composers, singers, and visual artists from around the world for a stunning dining experience that fuses art and cuisine.

San Francisco Premiere

7pm –Roxie

*Preceded by Spanish influenced tastings from Thirsty Bear Brewing Company, renowned for their tapas. Accompanied by wines.

The Ways of Wine

A famous sommelier, Charlie Arturaola, arrives at the glamorous “Masters of Food and Wine” in Argentina. After having “traveled the world on a wine bottle,” something unusual happens: he loses his palate. In order to recover it, the most important people of the wine world think he has to “wash” his palate with the best wines of the region.

San Francisco Premiere

9:15pm –Roxie

Master Sommelier David Glancy, founder of the San Francisco Wine School will discuss Charlie Arturaola, wine and becoming a Master Somm.

* Wine from Y Rousseau Winery and Chocolate tasting before the film.

Babette’s Feast

A French housekeeper (Stéphane Audran) with a mysterious past brings a quiet revolution to a little Scandinavian fishing village toward the end of the nineteenth century in the form of an exquisite French meal from Potage a’la Tortue (Turtle Soup) to Caille en Sarcophage avec Sauce Perigourdine (Quail in Puff Pastry Shell with Foie Gras and Truffle Sauce), sparkling Veuve Clicquot and the finale — Baba au Rhum avec les Figues (Rum Cake with Dried Figs). Gabriel Axel’s Oscar-winning film, adapted from an Isak Dinesen story, is the ultimate film for food lovers.

Introduced by Gayle Pirie and John Clark of the Foreign Cinema restaurant.                  1:15pm –Roxie

*Preceded by tastings of Vanilla Bean Organic Ice Cream from Straus Family Creamery and handcrafted meringues from The Grand Meringue