This week brings three medium-scaled festivals to the Bay Area. The longest-running, having started nearly 30 years ago, is the Arab Film Festival—the nation’s oldest such event. The entire western hemisphere’s oldest film festival, SFFilm fka the San Francisco International Film Festival, brings its more recently-launched (in 2014) annual Doc Stories back, also this Thursday night. Unfortunately, neither Arab Fest or Doc Stories responded to press inquiries with advance materials this year, so we’ll just leave you to probe their programs for yourself.

Doc Stories, which gathers together many of the year’s more acclaimed nonfiction features and shorts over four days at the Vogue, Thu/6-Sun/9, provides more info here. Arab Fest, running Thu/6-November 15 at various Bay Area venues (plus an

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