Women a focus of 14th SF South Asian Film Festival

Bollywood and Beyond, a.k.a. 3rd i. It begins at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, with Neeraj Ghaywan’s Cannes prize-winner “Masaan” (“Fly Away Solo”) at the Castro Theatre and ends Sunday, Nov. 13, with a short film program that includes Bay Area filmmakers at New People Cinema in Japantown.

Described as a Bollywood “Sex and the City,” it’s about four women who rebel against tradition to explore their sensual desires and dreams.

To celebrate a year in the Mission District, programmers will devote each of their signature weekday retrospective nights (Music Monday, Terror Tuesday, Weird Wednesday, Fist City, Girlie Night) to movies that for the most part played at the old New Mission on their first runs.

Screenings include G.W. Pabst’s 1929 silent starring Louise Brooks, “Diary of a Lost Girl” (7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, with live musical accompaniment by Musical Art Quintet) and Bruce Lee’s signature film “Enter the Dragon” (noon Sunday, Nov. 13).

There is also a nice slate of San Francisco-shot films, including the Dirty Harry thriller “Magnum Force” (7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16), “Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins’ “Medicine for Melancholy” and David Fincher’s “Zodiac” (both Nov. 20), “Mrs. Doubtfire” (Nov. 22), and Wayne Wang’s landmark 1982 low-budget indie “Chan Is Missing” (Nov. 27).

“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”: The Berlin band ALP travels the world to perform live musical accompaniment to German silent films.

First up is Robert Wiene’s 1920 Expressionist horror classic 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11, at Goethe-Institut Auditorium, 530 Bush St., S.F. (415) 263-8760. www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/sfr.html.