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ZYZZYVA Movie Matinee with Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Kaveh Akbar
Sunday October 13, 2024 12:30pm - 2:30pm PDT
Roxie Theater
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Co-presented with The Roxie , ZYZZYVA, and SF IndieFest

The next edition of ZYZZYVA Movie Night—the new San Francisco film series featuring a noted writer presenting a favorite film—marks its first matinee. At the beloved Roxie Theatre in the Mission District, poet and novelist Kaveh Akbar (Martyr!) will discuss Abbas Kiarostami's 1987 film Where Is the Friend's House? in conversation with Ahmad Kiarostami, Roxie board member and the director’s son. Co-hosted by acclaimed author Ingrid Rojas Contreras and ZYZZYVA editor Oscar Villalon. Doors at 12:00PM for book sales/signing. $16

Book sales for this event coordinated by Dog Eared Books
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Ahmad Kiarostami

Ahmad Kiarostami is the president of the Kiarostami Foundation, a nonprofit based in San Francisco. Before the Kiarostami Foundation, he co-founded Koantum, a platform to teach science to elementary school students in the United States, and founded Fotomoto (acquired in 2012) where... Read More →
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Oscar Villalon

Oscar Villalon is the editor of ZYZZYVA, winner of a Whiting Literary Magazine Prize in 2022. His writing has been published in Stranger’s Guide, Freeman’s, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. He has served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction... Read More →
Authors and Participants
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Ingrid Rojas Contreras

 INGRID ROJAS CONTRERAS was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her memoir The Man Who Could Move Clouds was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award, and her debut novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree was the silver medal winner... Read More →
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Kaveh Akbar

Kaveh Akbar's first novel, Martyr!, was published in 2024. His poems have appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Paris Review, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections—Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf—in addition to a chapbook... Read More →
Sunday October 13, 2024 12:30pm - 2:30pm PDT
Roxie Theater
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